Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2025: On April 27, 1961, the people of Sierra Leone danced in the streets, waving green, white, and blue flags, celebrating the end of colonial rule and the birth of a new nation. With optimism swelling, Sir Milton Margai became Sierra Leone’s [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail (Abuja,Nigeria) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: On Saturday April 5, 2025, I accompanied Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma to the 8th African Leadership Forum (ALF) in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum, held from 7th to 8th at the Munyonyo Speke Resort, was co-organized by the [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2025: It was sometime in 2001, in the warm, buzzing office of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. The war had ended, but the scars were still fresh, and conversations about rebuilding were everywhere. I remember sitting with a few international [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura (Nyon, Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April, 2025: I recently listened to an insightful 25-minute interview of The Guardian journalist Chris McGreal on Democracy Now’s YouTube channel (Democracy Now!, 2025), which looked at the apartheid roots of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who has carved out for [Read More]
U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone Bryan D. Hunt: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: To make America safe, strong, and prosperous, President Trump is ensuring that U.S. immigration laws are followed. If you try to enter the United States illegally, lie to get a visa, work without legal permission, or [Read More]
Murtala Mohamed Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2025: The US Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Bryan D Hunt, has stated that the United States Government has serious concerns about Sierra Leoneans misusing their visas when they travel to the United States. Ambassador Hunt explained, “15% of Sierra Leoneans who travel [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: “Water is life; when there is no water, it is as if there are no people living.” These profound words from ‘Masechefo Sechefo, a Community Councilor at Ha Sekete village, capture the essence of existence in rural Lesotho before the African Development Bank’s transformative [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: Sierra Leoneans are not happy, and they will never be happy as long as we continue to have the kind of politicians we do as our leaders. We are living in a tripartite nation, one that is divided into three distinct [Read More]
Bob Massally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: Watching BBC News few days ago and reading both its website as well as those of the UK’s Fleet Street newspapers, journalists were moaning the fact that the UK and the US have just had their worst rating ever in the respected [Read More]
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