Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: Africa’s most renowned actor and film producer – Idris Elba, has this week been awarded knighthood by King Charles III in the New Year Honours for services to young people, the BBC reported. He’ll now be known as Sir Idris Elba. Idris received the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: At a time when human trafficking, modern slavery and anti-migrant sentiment are increasing across parts of Africa, Catholic leaders, civil society organisations and law enforcement agencies are strengthening collaboration to protect the most vulnerable and restore dignity to victims. In an interview after attending [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: On the occasion of Africa Day 2026, Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), and Mr. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi and the Chairperson of the African Union, have issued a united call for accelerated integration, global [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Some pandemics don’t strike the body—they slash the tongue. They spread through prosecutions and public warnings, and through the quiet calculations people make before speaking. Sierra Leone is living through that contagion: a pandemic of fear, marked by lowered voices, deleted [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Many of you have likely seen the video—women stripped bare in the street, their bodies turned into public property, their pain turned into public entertainment. It is a violence so obscene it seems to knock the breath out of language itself. [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: For years, Sierra Leone’s authorities dismissed allegations that the country was becoming a strategic transit hub for global cocaine syndicates. Every major seizure linked to Freetown was met with the same institutional reflex: denial, deflection, and carefully worded press statements. But [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2026: The Human Rights Association (HRA) today calls on the authorities of Myanmar to dismantle without delay the network of online scam compounds operating within its territory in which Malawian nationals are being held against their will, subjected to forced labour, torture, and physical coercion, [Read More]
Mohamed Kroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2026: On 8 May 2026, the Sierra Leone Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA), in collaboration with the Presidential Hajj Task Force, convened a strategic coordination meeting at Freetown International Airport, Lungi, to strengthen preparedness for the 2026 Hajj operations. Sierra Leonean pilgrims are expected [Read More]
Dutch NEWS: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 5, 2026 Dutch drugs baron “Bolle Jos” is suspected of being behind a record shipment of more than 40 tonnes of cocaine that was intercepted by Spanish police off the coast of Africa, according Dutch News. Members of the Guardia Civil boarded the [Read More]
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