The Sierra Leone Telegraph

John Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to get people to adapt to change, even on the most basic issues? I have seen firsthand the tremendous effort that goes into addressing the waste-management challenge in Freetown. One moment, [Read More]

How climate action is changing young lives in Freetown

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Climate action isn’t just about protecting the environment, it’s also a pathway to jobs, says Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr. In Sierra Leone, young people make up 62.5% of the population, yet nearly 70% of youth are unemployed, many of them in Freetown. Through the [Read More]

From difficulty to hope: How Freetown City Council’s street sweeping program changed Yalie’s life

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Under the Transform Freetown – Transforming Lives roadmap, Freetown City Council (FCC) has prioritised public space cleaning through the clearance of illegal dumpsites, market cleaning, and daily street sweeping. With support from the World Bank, the initiative has created short-term employment for 4,425 residents [Read More]

Is Sierra Leone still committed to decentralization? Local Councils are on the brink of collapse

Abdul Kandeh Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Decentralization was once hailed as one of Sierra Leone’s most progressive governance reforms, a deliberate strategy to bring development closer to the people and correct decades of marginalization identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). But today, the promise of [Read More]

Mayor Aki-Sawyerr speaks at AIB Sustainability Conference 2025

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is one of the two largest banks in Ireland and a long time funder of Irish NGO GOAL. In January of this year, a delegation from AIB led by Colin Hunt, AIB Chief Executive Officer, visited Sierra Leone to see [Read More]

IBM accelerates digital transformation for Toyota South Africa Motors with SAP S/4HANA upgrades

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the successful delivery of two major SAP S/4HANA system upgrades for Toyota South Africa Motors (Toyota), marking a significant milestone in the automotive leader’s enterprise-wide modernization journey. The projects, executed by IBM in collaboration with SAP, underscore IBM’s commitment [Read More]

Alleged “flawed” autopsy practices in Sierra Leone

Foday Moriba Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: Mohamed Sillah Bangura, a concerned Sierra Leonean citizen, has written to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice expressing deep concern over what he describes as “serious shortcomings” in the country’s autopsy procedures conducted at the Connaught Hospital mortuary. In a [Read More]

Africa no filter honours filmmakers transforming global perceptions through powerful African stories

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: When Togolese filmmaker Angela Aquereburu created Ahoé, she wanted to tell a story that felt true to home — layered, emotional, and unmistakably Togolese. “Ahoé was made with a lot of love for our country, the people, for the stories,” Aquereburu said. This personal [Read More]

Measles vaccines have contributed to dramatic reduction in cases and deaths since 2000

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) underscores the remarkable progress made in the fight against measles over the past 24 years. Since 2000, global measles cases have fallen by 71%, dropping from an estimated 38 million to 11 million in 2024 [Read More]

Celebrating S.B.B. Dumbuya at 80 — The teacher who formed a generation

Hassan Arouni: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: This week, Mr. Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, affectionately known to thousands of former pupils simply as SBB, turned 80 years old. Eighty is a milestone that invites reflection—not only on a man’s life but on the generations he shaped, strengthened, and set [Read More]

AfDB invests over $7 million to complete Liberia’s run-of-river hydropower plant

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2025: The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, meeting today in Abidjan, has approved an additional loan of $7.41 million to complete implementation of the Renewable Energy for Electrification project in Liberia. The African Development Fund is the concessional lending window of the [Read More]

A female President for Sierra Leone in 2028 – Op ed

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Suhood Komeh (UK): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 November 2025: Two important questions women (and men allies), especially those in politics, should and must ask in preparation for Sierra Leone’s 2028 elections are these: If there are no SLPP, or APC Men’s Wings in both organisations, why should a Women’s Wing [Read More]

UN applauds African solidarity and speed in endorsing COP32 in Ethiopia

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 November 2025: COP30 conference in Belem, Brazil showed that climate cooperation is producing results that matter for people’s lives, with real benefits across African nations. 194 countries representing billions of people have said in one voice that the Paris Agreement on climate change is working, and [Read More]

MCB deploys strategic financing package to Invictus Investment to scale up its agro-food operations across Africa

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 November 2025: The Mauritius Commercial Bank Limited (“MCB”) has successfully granted a strategic financing package to Invictus Investment Company PLC (ADX: INVICTUS), a leading agro-food enterprise in the Middle East and Africa. The financing package is structured as an acquisition finance and revolving credit facility and [Read More]

MaadaBiodom – Meditations on Sierra Leone’s democratic unravelling

Dauda Yillah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 November 2025: MaadaBiodom is a metaphor. It fuses the name of the present political figurehead Maada Bio with the image of a biodome. In this image, politics becomes a sealed environment that suffocates, dominated by a single person, cut off from accountability and held [Read More]

New report reveals 2.18 million social enterprises powering inclusive growth across Africa

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 November 2025: The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, Africa Forward, the African Union Commission, the Motsepe Foundation, SAP and Genesis Analytics, have launched The State of Social Enterprise: Unlocking Inclusive Growth, Jobs and Development in Africa. The landmark report [Read More]

Nigerian police seized over $20million cocaine shipment from Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2025: The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has uncovered 1,000 kilogrammes of cocaine valued at N29.4 billion (over $20million) in a 20-foot export container imported at the Port and Terminal Multiservices Limited (PTML) in Lagos, according to Nigerian news media. The illicit drugs were displayed to [Read More]

Freetown City Council decries government interference and intimidation

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2025: At a press conference on November 10, 2025, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, joined by Deputy Mayor Kweku Lisk Esq., Chief Councillor Zainab Conteh, and other councillors, voiced serious concerns over actions which are undermining the effective functioning of the Freetown City Council. At the [Read More]

Burkina Faso extends citizenship to Black Americans to help boost economy

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2025: Last Friday, 7th November 2025, Captain Ibrahim Traoré welcomed 700 African Americans, Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Europeans, who affirmed their commitment to live and invest in Burkina Faso. They were in Burkina Faso for a Welcome Home event sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and [Read More]

We’re taking electricity very seriously to enhance the livelihoods of Nigerians, says President Tinubu

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2025: President Bola Tinubu, on Monday in Abuja, assured the technical contractor handling the Presidential Power Initiative (PPI), Siemens Energy, of the government’s full commitment to improving the country’s electricity supply and enhancing the livelihoods of its citizens. At a meeting at the State House [Read More]

EBID approves euro 123.5 loan to advance agricultural education and rural electrification in Guinea

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2025: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) and the Government of the Republic of Guinea have signed two loan agreements, totalling EUR 123.451 million, aimed at enhancing education and training on agribusiness and expanding access to clean, reliable energy across country. These strategic [Read More]

Africa no filter honours filmmakers transforming global perceptions through powerful African stories

Measles vaccines have contributed to dramatic reduction in cases and deaths since 2000