In Focus

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The new Spectrum Monitoring System is being marketed as a technical fix. Cleaner airwaves, better call quality, and less interference. Agreed, these are laudable objectives. But a mobile spectrum monitor is also a direction finder. It can locate transmitters, and, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: Ministers from six countries have called for urgent action to transform food systems to help close the global biodiversity implementation gap, as governments at COP17 confront slow progress towards their 2030 nature targets. With more than half of the 23 global biodiversity targets dependent [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched a three-day training to support 20 Sierra Leonean innovators selected under the Global Plastics Innovation Programme (GPIP) to transform their ideas for addressing plastic pollution into scalable businesses that create jobs, strengthen communities and drive sustainable development. [Read More]

John Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: Sierra Leone has begun the final 50-day countdown to its 2026 Population and Housing Census, with government officials and development partners calling for nationwide participation in the country’s first fully digital enumeration exercise. The countdown was launched at the Miatta Civic Centre [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: As we celebrate Black History Month here in the UK, today we honour a remarkable Sierra Leonean, living and working in London. She is  Adama Nyama Bah. By any measure, Adama Nyama Bah has lived a remarkable life. Born in Kabala, the headquarters of [Read More]

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]