In Focus

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 December 2021: The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) has opened applications for accomplished women leaders to join the third cohort of its flagship program, the Amujae Initiative. Launched in March 2020, the program is aimed at preparing African women to [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 November 2021: This piece is a lyrical dirge, eulogising a historical synopsis of the political landscape of Sierra Leone. It presents in literary terms, an architecture of blood-stained road maps and routes of Sierra Leone’s journey through the gridlocks to democracy. (Photo above: [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2021: Yesterday, I visited three of the sixty-two FreetownTheTreeTown planting locations (reforestation areas). I was accompanied by project team members, Tommy Garnett CEO of implementing partner Environment Foundation Africa (EFA), Charly Facheux of African Wildlife Foundation, Councillor Junisa Kamara – Freetown City [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 November 2021: Dozens of people were killed last night in Wellington – the far east of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, when a fuel tanker exploded – burning houses, vehicles and those trying to scoop fuel from the tanker before it exploded. Hundreds of people are believed [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2021 Sustainable Markets Initiative and The Perfect World Foundation, and its initiative – Climate AID, have teamed up as collaborating partners to accelerate the just transition to sustainable markets as set out in the Terra Carta, in order to integrate common efforts and to amplify [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2021: Sierra Leone’s Sexual Offences Model Court Judge Momoh-Jah Stevens, last Wednesday sentenced  Ahmed Issa Kamara (popularly known as Joshua) to five years imprisonment or pay eighty million Leones and a mandatory compensation of twenty million Leones, after he was found guilty of making and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2021: In the last few weeks, we have been publishing a series of articles from research conducted into the role played by Ambassador Omrie Golley in helping to bring sustainable peace to Sierra Leone during and after a long bitter war. In this the final [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2021: This year, the Global Parliament of Mayors awarded the prestigious Dr. Benjamin Barber Global Cities Award to Mayor Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, USA, and Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone. The award ceremony was part of the opening of the [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2021: Ambassador Omrie Golley needed all his skills as a British trained Barrister and a committed peace activist, to navigate the heady waters of the renewed peace process that followed the dark days of January 1999, right up until the signing of the [Read More]