In Focus

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: 28 September 2022: Yesterday, we visited sites destroyed by flooding which took place on Sunday, 11th of September 2022. With the support of an anonymous Sierra Leonean UK-based donor, we are supporting the victims and survivors. First, we met with Adama who lost her nephew and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 September 2022: On its 60th Anniversary in Sierra Leone, U.S. Ambassador David Reimer swore in the latest cohort of Peace Corps Volunteers at the Peace Corps Training Center in Kambia. In the following days, these 16 new Volunteers will officially take up service in 14 districts [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2022: At least six people are known to have died in Freetown after heavy rains yesterday Sunday, August 28th, 2022. Thousands of people living in hilltop communities as well as low-lying areas have been displaced. Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone has become a disaster-prone [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2022: Last Friday, 19th August 2022, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, had an engaging and inspiring encounter with hundreds of youths from across the country, who gathered at the National Youth Leadership Summit in Freetow where she delivered a powerful keynote address, calling on [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2022: It is still raining; Freetonians please stay safe. Although Freetown City Council’s flood mitigation activities this year were significantly reduced because of financial constraints, we are pleased that most of the areas we covered fared well during and after the [Read More]

Vertex Media: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2022: Trailblazing Sierra Leonean female football administrator – FIFA Council Member and CAF Executive Committee Member, Madam Isha Johansen has attained new heights in the corridors of global football administration and governance, as she was elected to the Fifa Foundation Board today during a virtually FIFA meeting. [Read More]

Zipporah Musau: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2022: The world is experiencing alarming trends of growing hate speech, racism, xenophobia, misogyny and hatred. Ms. Alice Wairimu Nderitu is the Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide. One of her priorities is to counter hate speech. She spoke to [Read More]

Saidu Bangura, PhD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 July 2022: If it is not intimidation and detention of political opponents, it is police brutality against the people and rival politicians of the governing party. If it is not electoral hurly-burly, it is inciting the youths to kill other youths for the [Read More]

Winnie Byanyima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2022 On May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, New York, a white supremacist livestreamed his terrorist attack against black people at a local supermarket killing ten, injuring three others, yelling racial slurs during the incident. 11 of the victims were black. The killer endorsed [Read More]