Reuters: Siera Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2024: China stopped short of providing the debt relief sought by many African countries last week, but pledged 360 billion yuan ($50.7 billion) over three years in credit lines and investments. The Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) launched in 2000 took on an enhanced [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2024: Mr. President Julius Bio, as I recall the day you were declared the winner of the 2018 Presidential Elections, I can still picture the vibrant atmosphere at the national stadium. It was a day of hope, a day when many, myself [Read More]
Dauda Yillah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2024: In his thought-provoking piece “Has Democracy Lost Its Utility?”, published just days ago in the Sierra Leone Telegraph, Abdulai Mansaray raises a critical question: “Is Trump the greatest threat to American democracy, or are those who enable him more dangerous?” In pondering [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2024: A report from State House in Freetown said yesterday that China’s President Xi Jinping praised the leadership of Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio and reaffirmed his commitment to enhancing cooperation between China and Sierra Leone. In a bilateral meeting, held on the eve [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2024: Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), has praised Saudi Arabia for its generous “support, dedication and friendliness” to Africa where it is supporting a host of projects touching virtually all aspects of people’s everyday life on the continent. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2024: The UN chief underlined the global body’s support for this partnership in remarks to the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit. Leaders from some 50 African countries are expected to attend the Summit, which has been held every three years since 2000. Debt hampers development [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2024: In the heart of Sierra Leone’s capital, where politics intertwines with governance, the recent Tribunal report on the Auditor-General and her Deputy has sparked widespread discourse. This report, overseen by Mrs. Justice Nyawo Matturi Jones JSC (Rtd) and her esteemed colleagues, [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2024: Although politics in Sierra Leone today is undergoing some form of altered consciousness, thanks to the tribal, regional and base instincts that sometimes strangulate our collective will for national development, it is refreshing to see the occasional good deed sprouting under the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2024: The Government of Sierra Leone has yesterday signed a $50 million agreement with China National Technical Import & Export Corporation to establish a SMART Sierra Leone Project. The signing took place on the margins of the FOCAC Summit in Beijing which President Bio is [Read More]
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