Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2021: On Tuesday, 15 December 2021, I had fruitful discussions with the Irish Ambassador – Claire Buckley, about the various TransformFreetown projects that have been implemented as a result of our continued partnership. She was excited to see tangible results of work [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2021: Court of Appeal Judge Reginald Fynn, yesterday acquitted and discharged Sierra Leone’s former Vice President, Victor Bockarie Foh, and two others – Abu Bakarr Carew and Ibrahim Fakeh of all corruption charges brought against them by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Justice Fynn however sentenced first [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2021: On Friday 3 December 2021, Absolute Barrkee Industries – a Sierra Leonean business, manufacturing common wire nails and sanitary paper products, was awarded a $10,000 prize at the Impact Investment Deal Summit organised by Acumen West Africa and Invest Salone (ISL), demonstrating the promise [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2021: It is an open secret that the price of goods and especially food stuff worldwide, has skyrocketed in the past two years. Many see these changes as not only coincidental but exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. With the Pandemic have come job [Read More]
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph; 15 December 2021: I am happy to have spent yesterday afternoon with HE Lisa Cheney, British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Madam Kobi Bentley – Director of Development, FCDO as we visited the sites of Freetown City Council (FCC) projects that were [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 December 2021: Sierra Leone’s Auditor General’s Annual Report for the financial year ending December 2020 which has been viewed with much dread by the government is out, and makes for unpleasant reading. Has President Bio (Photo above) lost the moral high ground in fighting corruption? Just [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 December 2021: High Court Judge Adrian Fisher (Photo) yesterday granted Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara and three others bail in the sum of Two Billion Leones and two sureties each, at the Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court in Freetown. Saidu Nallo (1st accused), Adikali Foday [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2021: Dr Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara – the 2018 presidential candidate for the opposition APC in Sierra Leone, has this morning appeared in court on corruption charges relating to the disappearance of millions of dollars meant for the reconstruction of the Sierra Leone Chancery Building [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2021: A TV camera operator working for Sierra Leone’s independent AYV media was attacked by at least eight police officers at their headquarters in Freetown yesterday, when he tried to investigate an outbreak of violence in the east of the city, after a serious accident [Read More]
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