Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2018: The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) has been launched today by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. It reports that public governance progress in Africa is lagging behind the needs and expectations of a growing population, composed mainly of young people. The 2018 IIAG [Read More]
Thomas Vandi Gbow: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2018: According to report, about 30 activists last Tuesday staged a protest in front of the ING Bank in Brussels, Belgium, carrying billboards reading: “Stop toxic investments”, “reclaim human rights” and “stop green washing”. The activists, identified as part of a coalition [Read More]
Theophilus Sahr Gbenda: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Recent developments around land governance and land ownership have left many with an impression that in the next five to ten years in Sierra Leone, issues around land will be a major flash point for bloody conflicts. Focusing on the Freetown [Read More]
Sitta Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Try walking on foot in Freetown today and face the hassle from motorists, pickpockets and open gutters with damaged slabs that may cost a broken leg. Traders have occupied the remaining footpaths that illegal structures are yet to occupy. Nothing is more [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: President Julius Maada Bio today hosted the deputy minister of foreign affairs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Yakoub Yusuf Alfu-Salim at State House in Freetown, where they discussed plans to strengthen bilateral ties between Sierra Leone and the UAE. The UAE envoy [Read More]
Tamba Tengbeh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources (MMMR) officially launched a $20 million World Bank funded Extractive Industries Technical Assistance Project (EITAP2) Phase Two, at a well-attended ceremony at the Miatta Conference Hall in Freetown, yesterday Tuesday 23th October, 2018. Speaking [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2018: Climate change is hitting Sierra Leone very hard. Recent tragic disasters, caused by heavy rains in the capital Freetown – especially last year’s deadly mudslide in Regent, which took the lives of over a thousand people, leaving thousands homeless is more than a wakeup [Read More]
Alhassan Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2018: The Global Rise for Climate Day was celebrated in Sierra Leone on 8th September, 2018, with the coming together of seventy-two people from the Waterloo Rural District in attendance, as well as pupils from five schools and representatives of various institutions from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2018: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Consultant – Tim Strawson, who is currently looking at the development of a national financing framework for Sierra Leone’s National Development Plan, on Friday 19th October held discussions with the Director of the Office of Diaspora Affairs (ODA). [Read More]
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