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  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP threatens to replace the capital’s elected Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Politics & Law
  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Global education progress masks deepening gaps in sub-Saharan Africa, says UNESCO 2026 Global Monitoring Education Report Education and Health
  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Sierra Leone – Empty seats, silent councils and the price citizens are paying – Op ed Politics & Law
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] ECOWAS Commission President meets with the African Union Commission’s Commissioner for Infrastructure Economy & Business
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] Sierra Leone’s former chief minister – David Francis’s “governing a poor country”- mea culpa or ex culpa? In Focus
  • [ March 20, 2026 ] Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr celebrates Eid with Muslims across the country In Focus
  • [ March 17, 2026 ] Sierra Leone Politics – Is a gentleman’s agreement with a government legally binding? – Op ed Politics & Law
  • [ March 16, 2026 ] Coalition of ministers, educators, developers, and researchers unites to end fragmentation and deliver the AUDA-NEPAD EdTech Vision 2030 for 200 million African learners Education and Health
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Sierra Leone’s former chief minister – David Francis’s “governing a poor country”- mea culpa or ex culpa?

March 23, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2026: A book by the first Chief Minister in the post-colonial era on governing Sierra Leone should be essential reading for governance experts. In expatiating his views and experience in the Office of Chief Minister, Professor David Francis’s in his book GOVERNING A [Read More]

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Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr celebrates Eid with Muslims across the country

March 20, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

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]

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Sierra Leone and the tragedy of the little stories

March 16, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

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]

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Sierra Leone – Protocols without action:  who now collects the dead on the streets?

March 16, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

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]

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Ethnic architecture, constitutional scars, and Sierra Leone’s blueprint of failure

March 10, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

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]

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Women’s right, justice, and national contradictions in Sierra Leone – Op ed

March 10, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

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]

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Millions of people across the world celebrating Commonwealth Day

March 9, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

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]

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Open letter to President Bio: The continued detention of Zainab Sheriff and the soul of our democracy

March 6, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

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]

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Sierra Leone: Politics of Deforestation – Rogue Minister

March 1, 2026 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

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]

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