In Focus

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2017 Heavy rains in Freetown have led to landslide in the vicinity of Guma in Regent and Mortema. Over 200 unidentified remains are reported to have been taken to the Connaught hospital mortuary. 60 of the 200 dead are said to be children [videopress 1bHfMtHE] [Read More]

Memuna Forna – Insight Publisher Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2017 Since 2013, we have been Sierra Leone’s leading producer and publisher of quality business-to-business media.  Our flagship publication – Insight, is the only magazine for those who do business in Sierra Leone. We produce and publish compelling newsletters, brochures, presentations [Read More]

Sierra Leone Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2017 Following concerns raised by the government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, over the issuance of entry visas under Article 20 (Domestic Labour of Kuwait) to Sierra Leone nationals to work as [Read More]

Santhkie Sorie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2017 In professionally minded societies, officials who fall short in the performance of their duties often resign, or at least tender their resignation. Generals who lose wars even commit suicide. This was what Abdul Akim Amer – the Egyptian General, did in 1967 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 August 2017 (Photo: Poorly constructed roads in Sierra Leone – costing hundreds of millions of dollars). Pressure is mounting on the World Bank, IMF and DFID to cease funding of the Koroma government, following reports that, more than twenty-five state institutions have failed to account for [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2017 The shooting last year of Sierra Leone’s retired chief of the military and the killing of a well-known barrister in Freetown, sparked a renewed debate about rising armed robbery and criminality in the capital. But in the last few months, police have stepped up [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2017 If the whole point of banning jogging along the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown was simply to prevent violence and criminality, then it seems the police may have an ulterior motive, critics of police chief Francis Munu say, after football gang violence erupted [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2017 Today, August 3rd 2017 marks the 185th anniversary of the birth of EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN (3 August 1832 to 7 February 1912). All over the world from the Caribbean where streets and monuments are named after him – to the USA where whole buildings [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 July 2017 There is mixed reaction to last week’s announcement by Sierra Leone police to arrest any group of people jogging in the streets of the capital Freetown, without first obtaining permission from the police. Many in Sierra Leone say that in the light of rising [Read More]