Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and Eugenia Kargbo – Africa’s First Chief Heat Officer in Sierra Leone, have been recognised by the National Geographic among 33 extraordinary individuals across the world whose visionary ideas and relentless efforts are making a global impact. (Photo above: Freetown [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2025: Sierra Leoneans woke up to the news that our nation has been grouped together with countries like Russia, Myanmar, South Sudan, Haiti etc. to face sharply restricted access to visa to the USA. While it is still in draft form, and even [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2025: Many Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad are now seriously at risk of being declared terrorists, for simply criticising the government of President Julius Maada Bio who few years ago annulled the death penalty, only to replace it with extra-judicial killings by state sanctioned [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2025: As always, it is another sad day in the history of Sierra Leone. After sixty years of the Public Order Act, which was imposed under the leadership of Sir Albert Margai in 1965, we find ourselves crying over spilled milk yet [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2025: In 2020, Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr joined former Liberian President – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to launch the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Centre for Women and Development (“the EJS Centre”). Marking its fifth birthday, and on the eve of International Women’s Day, this is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2025: After much uncertainty about the peace accord signed by the ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC in Sierra Leone, after the controversial June 2023 general and presidential elections, which ushered in a Tripartite agreement aimed at the implementation of recommendations of a Report [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: Last Friday, the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the UN representations in both countries, officially launched the GOLA-REAP (Resilience, Empowerment, Access, and Peacebuilding) project at Bo Waterside, Liberia. The event brought together government officials, representatives of the UN in Liberia [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: For decades, Africa has been subjected to a pattern of coercion disguised as diplomacy. It is a cycle that repeats itself with every new U.S. administration, regardless of whether the president is a Democrat or a Republican. The recent events at [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: According to report by The Brussels Times, the notorious Dutch drug criminal ‘Bolle’ Jos Leijdekkers (Dutch for ‘tubby Jos’) who according to Dutch police is the most wanted person in the Netherlands, was last week sentenced to another prison term of 13 years in [Read More]
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