Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2026: Today Friday 20th March 2026, marks the end of thirty days of fasting for Muslims all over the world, with prayers and celebrations. And in the capital of Sierra Leone – Freetown, where today has been declared a public holiday, the capital’s Mayor Yvonne [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: In Sierra Leone, public service often ends the way it begins – with a story. Not a balance sheet. Not a report card. A story – told after the fact, polished by memory, and usually centred on one brave figure who [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: There was a time not long ago when the streets of Freetown began revealing a disturbing and heartbreaking trend: an alarming number of corpses were being found in public spaces. For any city, such a development is both a humanitarian crisis [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2026: In Sierra Leone, national troubles rarely make the headlines. They arrive as errands. A mother plans her morning around whether the tap will run. A student studies by phone torchlight, rationing battery life and hope. A trader budgets for the “extra” [Read More]
Alhaji Umar Modou N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2026: I love my country Sierra Leone so dearly and therefore enjoy all its contradictions. You declare a holiday to mark International Women’s Day and at the same time involved in silencing the voices of women. Voice and agency are fundamental [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 March 2026: Commonwealth Day is being celebrated across the world today, 9th of March 2026, with people taking part in cultural events, school activities and faith-based services in the 56 member countries. Observed annually on the second Monday in March since 1977, the day brings together [Read More]
Lucy Baindu Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 March 2026: Your Excellency Julius Maada Bio, I write to you today not as a partisan voice, not as someone who endorses every word spoken at every rally, but as a Sierra Leonean woman who believes deeply in the promise of New Direction [Read More]
The Geko Project: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2026: A senior politician facilitated illegal encroachment on a national park in Sierra Leone so elites could build mansions. The president sat on the evidence. With their multiple storeys, columns and arches, the mansions under construction in Bio Barray are a world [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2026: Like Maya Angelou once said, there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Those words live inside me, not as poetry, but as a warning. For a long time, I thought silence was safety. I thought silence [Read More]
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