Amin Kef-Ranger: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2021: The Judiciary of Sierra Leone, in a statement released last week, said that eight hundred and seventy cases were reviewed by the Courts, in an exercise aimed at decongesting the prisons during the nationwide Judicial Week which ended on 4th February 2022, [Read More]
Dauda Yillah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2022: France announced last week that it was pulling its troops with immediate effect out of Mali, where they were deployed in 2013 with the aim of helping to roll back the tide of jihadi insurgency that threatened to destabilize the entire Sahel [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2022: The long-awaited controversial report into the management of Freetown City Council under the leadership of Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr was made public last Thursday, by the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development – Tamba Lamina. A key recommendation of the report calls for the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2022: The President of the African Development Bank Group, Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, ended his three-day official visit to Tanzania with a moving tribute to the late President John Magufuli (Photo above), who died in office last March. Adesina last Thursday travelled to the north-western [Read More]
Augustine Sankoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2022: The World Bank Regional Vice President for Western and Central Africa, Mr. Ousmane Diagana during his visit to Sierra Leone last week, pledged the Bank’s commitment to continue to provide funding and technical advice in support of the country’s education system. “I [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2022: Last Thursday, the newly appointed National Security Coordinator heading Sierra Leone’s Office of National Security (ONS) – Abdulai Caulker, took his oath of office in the presence of President Dr Julius Maada Bio, during a short ceremony at State House. Mr Caulker said he [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2022: The African Union Commission (AUC) will soon benefit from an $11.48 million grant from the African Development Fund to strengthen its governance and provide it with institutional support. Approval for the grant, from the Fund’s regional public goods window, came a few days ahead [Read More]
CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2022: Earlier this week, the Sierra Leone Police “invited for questioning” Mr Sidie Yahya Tunis, APC’s acting publicity secretary and deputy spokesman, after an interview which he granted to Radio Democracy 98.1 “Good Morning Sierra Leone” program on February 7, 2022. The SLP deemed [Read More]
Abdul Malik Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2022: Francis Ben Kaifala, President of the Network of Anti-Corruption Institutions in West Africa (NACIWA), and Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone, has said that seven out of ten of the military coups happening in the ECOWAS region are [Read More]
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