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Africa needs strong institutions and smart policies

September 5, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2020: Dr. K.Y. Amoako spent two decades as a leading economist at the World Bank. He was also an Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). He is the founder and President of the African Center for [Read More]

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President Bio is recovering in Lebanon after serious medical treatment

September 4, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 14

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2020: After leaving Sierra Leone last week for Lebanon on what State House in Freetown described in a statement as a ‘private visit’, more is now known about the true reason for president Bio’s trip to Lebanon. Following last week’s unconfirmed report that the president [Read More]

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Freetown City Council versus government – president Bio must stop this futile cold war

September 3, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 September 2020: A cold war of sorts is being fought over the Municipality of Freetown that is affecting its long-suffering residents. Freetown is Sierra Leone’s major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra [Read More]

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Sierra Leone ministry of lands implicated in another illegal land grabbing scandal

September 3, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Joe Walker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 September 2020: On Wednesday 26th August of this year, unidentified persons break the padlock of the gates of property belonging to Mr. John D. Okrafo-Smart situated at the above address and carted away with construction materials estimated to worth millions of leones (i.e. seven [Read More]

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ACC takes action on Auditor General Report

September 2, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Patrick Sandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) wishes to update the general public of the actions and steps it has taken to address critical issues raised in the Auditor General’s Audit Reports of Sierra Leone. These interventions focused on aspects of possible, or alleged corruption, [Read More]

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Government of Sierra Leone taken to court over Provinces Lands Act

September 2, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 27

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2020: Last Friday, 28th August 2020, the Krio Descendants Yunion in collaboration with the Krio Community organisation – representing millions of people of Krio ancestry and heritage – both in Sierra Leone and overseas,  filed a lawsuit at the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, challenging [Read More]

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The choice could not be clearer at Sierra Leone’s 2023 elections – Op ed

September 1, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 19

Yankuba Kaisamba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2020: A president who can bring our people together and hold the country together, or a president who divides us and expose us to political instability and uncertainties? In less than three years, the people of Sierra Leone will vote to elect a [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s journalists condemn spread of hate messages on social media

September 1, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2020: The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), in a press statement issued last Friday 28 August, 2020, signed by its Secretary General –  Mohamed Asmieu Bah, says that it is concerned about the proliferation of videos, audios, and voice notes with [Read More]

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Sierra Leoneans in Europe protesting against president Bio at the London Black in the Park

August 31, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2020: Today Monday, 31st August is a Bank holiday in England, and what normally would be the London West Indian Carnival, will because of the COVID-19 pandemic, instead be celebrated by thousands of people who will march in London to highlight the continuing killing of [Read More]

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