In Focus

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2022: On Tuesday, 18 January 2022,  the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone in collaboration with the Freetown-based think tank – Centre for International Law and Policy in Africa (CILPA), commemorated today the 20th anniversary of the formal end of Sierra Leone’s civil war and [Read More]

Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 January 2022: January 6th, 1999, the most dreadful single tragic day in our nation, Sierra Leone’s history. A day like no other in our 10-year civil war with thousands killed, maimed, and their bodies left to rot in the streets without proper burial. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 January 2022: Nigerian Christian contemporary and gospel singer, songwriter, and sensational music minister, Omolola Owoeye, better known as “Loolla” renowned for her exceptionally lyrical content, releases a brand new single titled “My Year” produced by Bode Afolabi. “My Year” is a new year anthem to speak [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2021: Cleaning is a process with systems, not an event. This is why all Freetonians are required to engage registered waste service providers (tricycle groups or trucks) to collect their household waste, and why the Freetown City Council (FCC) engages the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2021: Dr Kandeh Yumkella, Member of Parliament for Constituency 062, Samu Chiefdom in Kambia District was honoured with the “distinguished award” under the “Global Impact category” at the 11th Edition of the African Achievers Award. Held at the Kensington Palace in London, the organizers recognized [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 December 2021: The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) has opened applications for accomplished women leaders to join the third cohort of its flagship program, the Amujae Initiative. Launched in March 2020, the program is aimed at preparing African women to [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 November 2021: This piece is a lyrical dirge, eulogising a historical synopsis of the political landscape of Sierra Leone. It presents in literary terms, an architecture of blood-stained road maps and routes of Sierra Leone’s journey through the gridlocks to democracy. (Photo above: [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2021: Yesterday, I visited three of the sixty-two FreetownTheTreeTown planting locations (reforestation areas). I was accompanied by project team members, Tommy Garnett CEO of implementing partner Environment Foundation Africa (EFA), Charly Facheux of African Wildlife Foundation, Councillor Junisa Kamara – Freetown City [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 November 2021: Dozens of people were killed last night in Wellington – the far east of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, when a fuel tanker exploded – burning houses, vehicles and those trying to scoop fuel from the tanker before it exploded. Hundreds of people are believed [Read More]