Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2022: The outstandingly hardworking Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr will be speaking at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers 2022 event in New York next week. She will be speaking about the importance of the “Power of Community and Collaboration” in achieving global goals. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2022: As political fallout continues over the ongoing, seriously flawed voter registration process ahead of elections in June 2023 in Sierra Leone, the capital’s Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr has written to the Chief Electoral Commissioner – Mohammed Konneh, outlining the difficulties first time voters are experiencing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2022: Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday visited the residence of the British High Commissioner in Freetown, where he signed a book of condolence in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth II. The former president drove from his hometown of Makeni to pay [Read More]
Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 September 2022: Sierra Leone’s national voter registration exercise for 2023 commenced on 3 September 2022, and was fraught with technical and bureaucratic challenges. Hundreds of videos and other evidence collected by Africanist Press show that thousands of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 September 2022: Yesterday’s inauguration of newly elected president Ruto of Kenya at the Nairobi national stadium was going well until President Ruto welcomed and paid tribute to visiting Heads of State, but omitted the name of Sierra Leone’s president. One of Ruto’s aides had to point [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 September 2022: A shocking leaked video showing one of the Ruling SLPP party grandees – Alie Kabba, advocating for the use of undemocratic and illegal tactics during this period of voter registration to ensure that his party stays in power after general and presidential elections next [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 September 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched the National Education Sector Plan 2022-2026 under the theme, “Transforming Education for All”, noting that although transforming education is not cheap, his government is making gains. Speaking at the Freetown International Centre in Aberdeen, Freetown last Thursday [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 September 2022: On its 60th Anniversary in Sierra Leone, U.S. Ambassador David Reimer swore in the latest cohort of Peace Corps Volunteers at the Peace Corps Training Center in Kambia. In the following days, these 16 new Volunteers will officially take up service in 14 districts [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 September 2022: Britain’s longest-serving monarch and head of the Commonwealth – Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 96. She passed away peacefully at Balmoral yesterday, Thursday afternoon, two days after appointing the country’s 15th Prime Minister of her 70-year reign, Lizz Truss. Prince Charles who is [Read More]
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