Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: A tragic military helicopter crash in the central Ashanti region of Ghana has claimed the lives of the country’s ministers of defence and environment, along with six other people. It is not yet clear what may have caused the crash. It is reported that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2025: In the last hour (6pm GMT), the Sierra Leone Telegraph has received reports of large fire burning at State House in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. The building is the official seat of the head of state and government. Built in 1895, State House was [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2024: Former President of America Donald Trump, who is the leading Republican contender for the presidency this November, has survived what the FBI has described as an assassination attempt. He was shot while speaking at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. One person is dead and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 January 2024: Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party Secretary General – Mr Lansana Dumbuya, has today reported on Twitter that he has been invited by police for questioning at the country’s notorious Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Freetown, following a statement he published yesterday on behalf [Read More]
Siera Leone Telegraph: 26 December 2023: In the last hour, there are reports of trucks load of military and OSD personnel raiding the residence of Sheik Alhaji Mohamed “Omodu” Kamara, alias Jagaban in Freetown. This marks a major escalation of government’s atrition against the country’s main opposition APC party by [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2023: Attempts at unseating Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio continue in the early hours of this Sunday morning, when a group of unknown soldiers and police officers broke into the capital’s main ammunition stores at the Wilberforce Barracks, taking away heavy weapons. Gunshots were [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2023: In a move to champion inclusive global leadership in climate action, C40 Cities has today announced its new co-chair model with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan and Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr as co-chairs of the organisation. As the elected leaders of the C40 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2023: Both the main opposition APC party – led by Dr Samura Kamara, and the government of Sierra Leone – represented at the mediation talks by the government’s chief minister David Sengeh, have today signed an historical agreement to end the post–election conflict that has [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2023: Many poor Africans up and down the continent may sleep soundly tonight, if report of the last few hours that Prigozhin – the Russian mercenary leader of the deadly Wagner group, has died in a plane crash near Russia. This breaking news comes from [Read More]
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