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Response to Freetown Susan Bay fire disaster is promising but questions remain unanswered

March 29, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2021: Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) continues to lead the response to the Freetown Susan Bay fire disaster that consumed the homes of thousands of slum dwellers. The incident has been classified as a level two national disaster, prompting massive humanitarian support from [Read More]

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Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – beyond those utterances

March 29, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2021: It would have made life much easier for Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr if she had not made those statements captured on audio that seem to have got her into hot waters. On the face of it, many have considered her tribe-related references inappropriate. [Read More]

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Where is the 8.8 billion Leones ministry of finance says it gave to SLFA?

March 28, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2021: Questions are being asked about the whereabouts of over seven Billion Leones that cannot be accounted for by Sierra Leone’s ministry of finance, who in a press statement said that it gave 8.8 billion Leones to the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), a claim [Read More]

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Maada Bio’s 2023 playbook for electoral victory

March 28, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Mahmoud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2021: It appears President Julius Maada Bio has drawn up his victory plan for 2023, and it looks like an enhanced version of the successful plan laid out by his former campaign manager Alie Kabbah in 2018.  But this time around, it [Read More]

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Mayor Aki Sawyerr mobilises emergency humanitarian response to Freetown fire disaster

March 26, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 13

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 March 2021: Yesterday morning, in the wake of the fire disaster that destroyed hundreds of properties, leaving thousands destitute in the Susan Bay slum community in Freetown, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr joined the Director General of the newly formed National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), Lieutenant General (Rtd) Sesay, [Read More]

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Lands minister Senesie says he is determined to protect state land and forest reserves

March 26, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 March 2021: On Tuesday, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie visited the Mount Sugar Loaf Community, where a major landslide caused by heavy rains and soil erosion in 2017 killed over a thousand people, most of whom where children sleeping [Read More]

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We must continue to heed the lessons if we are to build better and stronger – says President Bio

March 25, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: President Dr. Julius Maada Bio today responded to the Report on the Targeted Review on Health Governance and Covid -19 Response in Sierra Leone. Speaking to eminent leaders from across the continent at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown, this is what President Bio [Read More]

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Thousands left homeless in Susan Bay Freetown by raging inferno 

March 25, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: One of the poorest slum communities in the capital Freetown – the Susan Bay community was engulfed in a massive blaze of fire last night, destroying properties and leaving thousands of people destitute. It is not clear what could have started the fire, but [Read More]

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Concerns grow over Sierra Leone government’s proposed cyber-crimes legislation

March 25, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: As the debate continues over the rationale of the government of Sierra Leone’s proposed legislation on cyber-crimes which has gone through its second and penultimate reading in parliament, the minister of information – Mohamed Rahman Swarray has held whistle-stop meetings with students at the [Read More]

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