In Focus

Aruna Turay (Local Journalist in Freetown) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2016 While sceptics and doubters, including senior government ministers are questioning the authenticity of the growing reports and gruesome pictures of young children murdered for ritual purposes in Sierra Leone, what is not in dispute are the accounts of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2016 In the last few days there has been an alarming and sickening increase in the number of reported and unconfirmed cases of young children’s mutilated bodies found in various parts of Sierra Leone. (Photo: Some of the alleged murderers caught with body parts by [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2016 Education, education, education – many commentators in Africa say is the panacea for ridding Africa of poverty, poor health, squalor, social inequality, and political marginalisation. And for poorer countries like Sierra Leone, what is obvious is that after decades of massive under-funding and lack [Read More]

N’Karimu Kamara Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2016 Following his recent engagement with US Law makers, Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP)’s presidential flag-bearer aspirant – Kandeh Yumkella, departed for Beijing, China, for a high-level meeting on the South-South Cooperation Taskforce. The two-day event which brought together a large number of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2016    President Koroma of Sierra Leone and his senior ministers are not in a happy place today, as the government has been forced by lack of cash, to cancel all official celebrations of the country’s independence. The annual State House beer, champagne, wine and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2015 Take a cursory look at the long list of SLPP presidential aspirants and you will see that the party is not short of quality leadership. But there are a few that are standing heads and shoulders above the rest, assuming tribalism is not a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 August 2015 Over 200 people witnessed the launch of Andrew Keili’s new book at the New Kona Lodge on Friday 28th August, 2015. Andrew Keili is one of the hot favourites in the forthcoming 2018 presidential election in Sierra Leone. Members of Parliament, heads of business [Read More]

Columba Blango – Chairman of KKY Movement UK Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2015 The Ebola Crisis has brought home to many people a sad truth that they had been trying to avoid. And after the high hopes of the first few post-civil war years, Sierra Leone is still broken. [Read More]

Dennis Kabatto: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 May 2015 Welcome to the 17th Anniversary of NOSLINA (National Organization of Sierra Leoneans in North America) weekend. On Saturday, 2nd May 2015, members of Sierra Leone’s most prestigious Diaspora establishment – NOSLINA, will gather at Metro Points in New Carrollton, Maryland, USA, to [Read More]