In Focus

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2021: The Armed forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) coup of May 1997 was short lived. With the assistance of ECOMOG troops, the militia known as the Kamajors, and the support of the sub region and the international community, the late Former President Ahmad Tejan [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2021: Days after the historic meeting in Yamoussoukro, Republic of Ivory Coast in March 1996, the leader of the NPRC Julius Maada Bio, handed over the reign of Government to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah who swiftly formed a new administration and continued with [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2021: By 1996, it was becoming increasingly clear that ending the war would require tacit diplomacy and a genuine desire by the Sierra Leone Government and its international allies to negotiate with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). A key proponent of this theory [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2021: I am pleased to have been able to play a part in researching the role of Ambassador Omrie Golley in bringing peace to Sierra Leone after a ten-year-old conflict. I met Omrie Golley over ten years ago, through my work as a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2021: Police are appealing for information to trace a man who has been reported missing from Leeds. Leeds District Police would like to speak to anyone who has seen or has information about Padodou Jatta who is of Gambian origin from Reginald Mount in Leeds, [Read More]

James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2021: Painting and drawing is a part of me; I grew-up with them and they are intricately intertwined with my writing. I was largely self-taught; I was only ever taught by one art teacher, at The Methodist Agricultural Secondary School, Bunumbu. She was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 August 2021: Early in the morning of 14 August 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, causing hospitals, schools and homes to collapse, leaving communities in crisis. UNICEF estimates that about 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, have been affected by the powerful earthquake. Over 2,000 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2021: His name is Lindsay Benjamin. Born and bred in Freetown, Sierra Leone and living in the UK. On 17 and 18 August 2021 Lindsay will be driving his Vauxhall Vectra Estate 1.9 SRI turbodiesel on a breathtaking, end-to-end tour of Britain, from John O’Groats in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2021: Sierra Leone is ranked 138th on the 2020 Global Youth Development Index which measures the status of young people in 181 countries around the world. Singapore ranked top for the first time followed by Slovenia, Norway, Malta and Denmark. Chad, the Central African Republic, [Read More]