In Focus

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]

Bob Massally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2023: Sierra Leoneans are the third least happy bunch in the whole-wide-world and the least happy in Africa, according to the latest Global Happiness Report. “Man dem nor happy oh”. This damning report comes at a time when the president is convinced and [Read More]

Setcheme Mongbo / Nadia Rasheed: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2023: We are living in an increasingly digital world that provides new and exciting opportunities for growth and development. And yet women around the world are disproportionately left behind when it comes to accessing and benefitting from these opportunities. This [Read More]

Alusine Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: In Sierra Leone, public-facing women – including women leaders, women human rights defenders, and women journalists – face an increased risk of threats, intimidation, online insult, and violence. According to a recently published report, these threats are often made in an attempt [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr last Thursday received an award from a group of people with disabilities who graduated after pursuing a course of training in Information Technology. Commenting on the award, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr said: “Yesterday morning I was invited to make a statement at [Read More]

Victor Mengot: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 January 2023: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Transport  and Aviation has responded to a call by transport and road safety advocates and stakeholders to consider modalities for establishing traffic courts in Sierra Leone. Our current traffic laws and regulations have some violations that are arrestable [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 January 2023: With general and presidential elections less than six months away, the people of Sierra Leone and the capital Freetown in particular, are praying and hoping for a much better 2023, after five years of brutal economic decline that has seen a massive fall in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2022: The International Organization for Migration (IOM), last week airlifted 149 Sierra Leoneans that were stranded in Niger, back to Sierra Leone, after failing to cross over to Europe in search of a better life. According to the IOM, the chartered flight was made possible [Read More]

Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2022: We watched the much talked about, recently released, Hollywood film The Woman King at Balexert in Geneva two days ago. It’s a deeply engaging and an epic film. It tells the story of the Dahomey Kingdom’s famous warrior women, the Agojies – [Read More]