Dr Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2023: Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyer has emerged as a transformative leader, bringing fresh perspective to the city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Her tenure has been marked by a strong focus on strengthening international bonds, fostering resilience, and promoting cultural development. One of Mayor Aki-Sawyer’s [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 May 2023: Solomon Dersso was the Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Union’s body charged with promoting and protecting human rights and other freedoms in Africa between 2019 and 2021. In this interview with Africa Renewal’s Kingsley Ighobor, Dr. Dersso [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura (Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 April 2023: Sad to learn about the death on 25 April of Harry Belafonte, the legendary calypso singer, actor and social activist who brought much happiness and hope to many people around the world. His big hit singles ‘The banana boat song’ (Day [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2023: Yesterday was public holiday in Sierra Leone as Muslims all over the country end their one month of fasting, culminating in the Eid-ul-Fitr prayers. On the eve of Eid, the former Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, visited several Mosques across the city, where she donated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2023: The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) has announced the third cohort of accomplished African women set to join its flagship program, the Amujae Initiative. The initiative was launched in 2020 by former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2023: Former Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr who is up for re-election in two months, has been speaking about her five years in office which she describes as challenging, but with so much more left to be done for the development of Freetown as well [Read More]
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2023: Throughout my tenure as the Mayor of Freetown, I have been blessed to have received your continuous moral support and encouragement in working towards our collective journey to #TransformFreetown. As you may have heard, I am running for re-election as the Mayor [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 April 2023: When my nephew in Freetown informed me two days ago that Davido’s Timeless album was Number 3 on the United States Apple Music Top Albums chart, I had to check the chart myself to confirm the information since the album was only [Read More]
Ernest J. Wilson, Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 March 2023: For an impoverished donor-dependent country that needs all the help it can get, Sierra Leone is astonishingly unkind to its diaspora nationals whose remittances contribute over 6 percent to the country’s measly Gross Domestic Product (GDP). According to the World [Read More]
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