The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2013 Sierra Leone has no business being poor, if only government can ensure that tax payers, especially large corporations, foreign owned companies, and local businesses with connections in high places pay equitable and appropriate taxes, and that government uses the tax it collects for [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February, 2013 DHL Express (http://www.dhl.com), the world’s leading international express services provider, has expanded its network of DHL Service Points in Sub-Saharan Africa from the initial 300 to over 1000, in just a few short months. The move is an aggressive expansion into the market, [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2013 That was president Koroma speaking to the thousands of supporters who turned out at the country’s sports stadium in Freetown last Friday, 22 February, 2013. They celebrated the president’s second term inauguration, after winning the general elections held last November. Present at the [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2013 Sierra Leonean-American born soul sensation – Azania, will be performing at the ‘Jeremiah Abiah presents – Artists You Ought To Know (AYOTK)’ tribute concert, to celebrate the life of singer -Whitney Houston, who died tragically last year. The tribute concert will [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2013 West African countries are missing out massively on trade with Europe, costing the sub-region billions of dollars in lost revenues, simply because of EU trade barriers. With rising poverty, very high youth unemployment and lack of investments in most West African countries, Europe must [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2013 President Koroma has named his last cohort of ministers, whom he says, will assist him in implementing his ‘Agenda for Prosperity’. The dust may be settling on that list, but chins are still wagging. Several questions are being asked, about the moral backbone [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2013 The Government of Sierra Leone is failing to keep its promises on funding for sanitation, a new report by the international development charity – WaterAid has revealed. 1.5 million more Sierra Leoneans lack access to sanitation today, than in 1990. The report warns [Read More]
11 February 2013 Last autumn the Office of the Auditor General of Uganda exposed the misuse and embezzlement of international aid funds by corrupt officials in the Ugandan administration. It was announced that a massive 80 million Norwegian NOK had been misused, 23 million of which came from Norway. According [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay 10 February 2013 Outgoing Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Abubakarr Multi-Kamara, today met and spoke to a gathering of Sierra Leonean students studying in China. He said that there are three politically significant values, which can be instilled in Sierra Leone’s educational system, [Read More]
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