Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: In 2002, shortly after Sierra Leone emerged from a devastating civil war and began the difficult work of rebuilding its democracy, 494 registered civil society organizations formed the National Election Watch (NEW). Its mission was both ambitious and essential: to monitor, [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: Sierra Leone has never lacked brilliant people. Our deeper failure has been our inability to build institutions that can multiply that brilliance. (Photo: Dr Davidson Nicol was the first black African elected as a Fellow of a Cambridge college – a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: Members of the global Sierra Leonean community can submit nominations across 12 distinct categories celebrating impact across sectors. Investor of the Year Recognizes the highest verifiable capital deployed into local, job-creating ventures in Sierra Leone. Returnee Trailblazer Honors returnees who have built and sustained [Read More]
Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2026: Sierra Leone today stands at a danger zone of governance where criminal enterprise, political fragility, and institutional decay collide with devastating force. What began as whispers of foreign “investors” arriving with unexplained wealth has expanded dangerously into a full‑scale national security [Read More]
Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2026: Sometimes history does not announce its return. It simply walks through the door wearing a familiar face. On 6 September 2026, former President Ernest Bai Koroma returned to Sierra Leone from Nigeria after the Government discontinued the criminal proceedings against him. [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmoud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2026: The sound of prayer had barely settled over the congregation at Makeni Central Masjid when another kind of emotion began to fill the great hall. Men rose from their seats. Hands reached out. Voices called his name. Some smiled; others simply [Read More]
Alusine Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: A few days ago, I watched a video of Sierra Leone’s government Chief Minister – Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, in a meeting with the Minister of Social Welfare, Mrs. Melrose Karminty, where he gave instructions for the establishment of a care home [Read More]
Aminata Sheriff: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: I woke up to the celebratory news about the UN approving a resolution on how Africa is represented on world maps, and I’m genuinely baffled by our priorities. I look at our own African diplomats and leaders – the people who spent [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs (MoGCA) in partnership with UN Women today launches the Gender Accountability Framework and the 2025 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) Act 2022, marking [Read More]
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