Politics & Law

Opposition APC member of Parliament Aminata Sesay named among parliamentarians to oversee Sierra Leone’s electoral commission

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2026: Sierra Leone’s Speaker of Parliament, Segepoh Solomon Thomas, has named Aminata Sesay, opposition APC member of parliament representing the people of Port Loko District, as a member of the newly constituted Ad hoc Parliamentary Oversight Committee for the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL). [Read More]

In Focus

Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar convene first continental conference on Catholic Education in Africa

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2026: The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) will hold the First Continental Conference on Catholic Education in Africa from 6 to 8 August 2026 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme: “Strengthening Catholic Education for Integral Human Development in Africa”. The [Read More]

Economy & Business

AfDB and Biovac sign $15 million agreement to advance Africa’s first end-to-end cholera vaccine production

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2026: The African Development Bank Group has finalised a loan of up to $15 million to the Biologicals and Vaccines Institute of South Africa Ltd (Biovac) to support a new multi-vaccine manufacturing facility in Cape Town that will significantly expand Africa’s domestic capacity to produce [Read More]

In Focus

AU and Germany welcome historic Zambia and Zimbabwe Lake Kariba boundary demarcation as Sierra Leone and Guinea struggle to resolve border dispute

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2026: The African Union (AU) Commission, through the African Union Border Programme (AUBP), and the German Federal Foreign Office congratulate the Republics of Zambia and Zimbabwe on the successful completion of the first phase of the Lake Kariba boundary demarcation exercise. The installation of floating [Read More]

Education and Health

Strong progress in lower-income countries underscores need for sustained investment in immunisation

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2026: Each year WHO and UNICEF release global and national routine immunisation coverage estimates (WUENIC). Immunisation in the lowest-income countries is supported by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance – a partnership that helps vaccinate more than half the world’s children, and includes WHO and UNICEF as [Read More]