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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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