Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2022: Last week, the Speaker of Parliament had to adjourn a session for nearly half an hour in a bid to separate feuding SLPP and APC MPs. Reports say that the two sides almost went into physical blows. It is a fact [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2022: President Julius Maada Bio has agreed to contribute $500,000 towards the cost of setting up an Africa Humanitarian Agency. He made this announcement at the opening session of the 16th Extraordinary Conference of the African Union Summit, which took place on [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2022: UK Minister for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean – Victoria Grace Ford, was in Freetown last Thursday, where she praised President Bio’s leadership for the policy reforms his government has put in place. The British politician, said that many of [Read More]
Mayor Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2022: Water is life and in Freetown the consequences of limited or no access to clean, potable water are acutely felt by almost 50% of our residents and to some degree by us all. The challenges of access to water increase with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 May 2022: UN Headquarters will observe the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers tomorrow Thursday, 26 May 2022. Secretary-General António Guterres will lay a wreath to honour the nearly 4,200 UN peacekeepers who have lost their lives since 1948 and will preside over a ceremony at [Read More]
CoPPP Media Team: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2022: Key members of the Consortium of Progressive Political Parties (CoPPP) last week embarked on a nationwide tour of Sierra Leone, starting in the South East of the country in Kailahun. On route to Kailahun, the CoPPP delegation led by the Chair, [Read More]
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2022: In my capacity as a member of the MMC Leadership Board, C40 Cities Vice Chairperson, founding member of the C40-MMC Global Mayors Task Force on Climate and Migration and co-lead of the Africa-Europe Mayor’s Dialogue, I am in New York [Read More]
Femi Claudius-Cole: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2022: In 2018, Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, a first timer in the murky world of Sierra Leone politics, emerged the winner of the municipality elections for the Freetown City Council. She won by a landslide, attracting widespread support from Freetonians who were attracted to her [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2022: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is being accused of leading government’s campaign to unseat the Mayor of Freetown, Mrs Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr from office, with a possibility of banning her for three years from politics. This comes after the ACC published a notice last week, [Read More]
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