Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2016 When a democratically elected government of one of the poorest countries in the world spends over $500 million on infrastructure projects in eight years, leaving millions of people without adequate supply of clean drinking water, electricity and healthcare, one has to wonder what and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2016 The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has lost the last two general and presidential elections, and from all accounts is destined to remain on the opposition benches in 2018, simply because it is failing to change. With less than two years to go before [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2016 As the opposition SLPP prepares for its forthcoming 2018 presidential candidacy election, presidential hopeful – Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has taken his message of ‘hope, opportunity and transformation (HOT)’ to the northern and eastern districts of Sierra Leone. This marathon tour followed his recent series [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2015 The brutal killing of an opposition SLPP supporter last Friday in Sierra Leone, is a grave cause of concern and worry for millions of Sierra Leoneans, whose dream of a politically progressive nation has in the last ten years been tested by the bad [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 May 2016 Police in Sierra Leone are investigating the gruesome death of a young man in the south-eastern city of Kenema, which took place yesterday. (Photo: President Koroma receiving political violence investigation report a few years ago from the head of the country’s police). There are [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2016 Alie Kabba will formally declare his candidacy for the opposition SLPP presidential flagbearership on Saturday, 28th May, 2016, in the south-eastern city of Kenema. His formal declaration will come well in advance of the party national convention, where delegates from across Sierra Leone, will [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2016 It was just a matter of time for gun violence to erupt in Sierra Leone’s coastal waters, involving illegal Chinese fishing trawlers and banditry. According to report from Reuters, armed Guinean soldiers and their Sierra Leone counterparts opened fire at each other, when the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 May 2016 In several African countries, the rise of a middle-class or middle-income earning group is significantly noticeable. Go to Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Angola, and the evidence can be seen, thanks largely to a huge increase in GDP, fuelled by foreign investments and an expansion [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2016 It is difficult to think of any good story making global news headline about or linked to Sierra Leone in almost a decade, after a brutal civil war that destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. If news making the rounds from [Read More]
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