In Focus

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14th May 2017  Yesterday – Saturday, 13th May 2017, Bob Howard – reporting for BBC Radio 4, on Kate Adie’s ‘From our own correspondent’ – broadcast in the UK, described the immense difficulties faced by young people in Sierra Leone trying to find work and make ends meet. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2017 A new documentary now  showing on Al Jazeera TV, titled – ‘Child Soldiers Reloaded’, features interviews with several former child soldiers from Sierra Leone – most of whom were recruited to work for Aegis, the private military company that signed an estimated US$293 million [Read More]

Arnold Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2017 St George’s Cathedral – one of Sierra Leone’s oldest churches, took eleven years to progress from the laying of the foundation stone on the 9th of January 1817, to the first service. Ever since then it has been a busy and important [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2017 This year’s list of recipients of national honours includes the Auditor General of Sierra Leone – Mrs Lara Taylor-Pearce, who has been awarded the highest rank – Grand Officer of the Order of the Rokel. She received the award from President Ernest Koroma at [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2017 The brutal killing of another young Sierra Leonean on the streets of London’s inner city area of Peckham has heightened fear among Africans, and in particular – the Sierra Leonean community, as police were called at 3.15pm on Friday, 28 April to a chaotic [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2017 After ten years of holding on to power, president Koroma will today reflect on all his failed promises as he prepares to leave office next year. He will be expected to look back at his poor performance and prioritisation of the real and desperate [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2017  The people of Sierra Leone are today marking 56 years of independence from Britain. But with economic hardship and massive unemployment – estimated at over 70% of the economically active population, this year’s celebration is a quiet affair and its filled with despondency. After [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2017 A nation that cannot manage its resources effectively is doomed to poverty and under-development.  Sierra Leone is abundantly rich in natural resources, yet classed as one of the poorest nations in the world. Successive governments of Sierra Leone have failed to fulfill their contract [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 April 2017 There was pandemonium outside a local police station in the east of Freetown this week when armed soldiers got off a military truck and stormed Ross Road police station, apparently to free a senior military officer who had been arrested and was being held [Read More]