Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2023: Freetown’s most successful Mayor – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, yesterday said goodbye to staff at the Freetown City Council, after handing over the mayoral chains to the Council’s Chief Administrator – Festus Kallay, in accordance with an order handed down to all Mayors and Chairpersons of [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mandate of elections observation in Nigeria ended yesterday, after closing of polls. And now the hard task of conducting “Preventive Diplomacy” has started, led by Sierra Leone’s former president Ernest Bai Koroma. This [Read More]
Amadu Sesay (Speedo): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Dr. Samura Kamara was born in 1951 in Kamalo, Karene District. His father, Pa Gibril Kamara was from Maworrko village near Rothuk and Magbanktha villages, Gberray Junction, Maforki Chiefdom, Port look District. Dr. Samura Kamara’s mother, Ya Bomporro Kamara (nee Kanu) [Read More]
Saidu Bangura, PhD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: There is a widespread political truism in Sierra Leone: both political parties that have (mis)governed the country since independence have regional and ethnolinguistic strongholds. The SLPP seems to have an edge over the APC in the South-Eastern regions of the country [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Prithvirajsing Roopun, President of the Republic of Mauritius, has congratulated Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio for emerging winner in the category of “African of the Year” award and called for a deepening bilateral relationship between the two countries. Both leaders met ahead [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2023: Several opposition supporters have been seriously injured, including the newly elected National Secretary General of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party – Lansana Dumbuya and his driver, when heavily armed soldiers stopped their vehicle in a convey carrying the party’s newly elected presidential candidate [Read More]
Mohamed Gibril Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: There are several imperatives, considerations, and trade-offs that must be taken into account by those seeking the APC presidential ticket if they are to succeed in winning the support of party members as well as those who lean towards APC across [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: President Dr Julius Maada Bio gave a keynote address at the launching of the first edition of the ‘Education in Africa’ report, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, and the African Union, on the margins of the Africa Assembly [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: Speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday Saturday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio shared Sierra Leone’s experience with Ebola, successes with Covid-19 and efforts at creating public health agencies and using early warning systems. “The main lesson for us in Sierra Leone is a clear [Read More]
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