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  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP threatens to replace the capital’s elected Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Politics & Law
  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Global education progress masks deepening gaps in sub-Saharan Africa, says UNESCO 2026 Global Monitoring Education Report Education and Health
  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Sierra Leone – Empty seats, silent councils and the price citizens are paying – Op ed Politics & Law
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] ECOWAS Commission President meets with the African Union Commission’s Commissioner for Infrastructure Economy & Business
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] Sierra Leone’s former chief minister – David Francis’s “governing a poor country”- mea culpa or ex culpa? In Focus
  • [ March 20, 2026 ] Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr celebrates Eid with Muslims across the country In Focus
  • [ March 17, 2026 ] Sierra Leone Politics – Is a gentleman’s agreement with a government legally binding? – Op ed Politics & Law
  • [ March 16, 2026 ] Coalition of ministers, educators, developers, and researchers unites to end fragmentation and deliver the AUDA-NEPAD EdTech Vision 2030 for 200 million African learners Education and Health

Editorials

Politics & Law

No winner for the 2019 Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

March 6, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2020: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation yesterday announced that there is no winner of the 2019 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. This decision has been made following deliberations by the independent Prize Committee, the statement says. Announcing the decision, Prize Committee Chair Festus Mogae [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone civil rights activist charged to court as students grant saga continues

March 6, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2020: Yesterday, the Executive Director of the Citizens Advocacy Network (CAN) – Mr Thomas Moore Conteh and dozens of students of the Limkokwing University were manhandled, arrested and detained by the Sierra Leone Police in Freetown at a peaceful protest march, calling on the government [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone’s president Bio meets European Union partners in Freetown

March 6, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday met partners of the European Union (EU) in Sierra Leone, to discuss the country’s development process as the economy continues to flounder. Efforts to attract foreign investors especially for key sectors of the economy are yet to bear [Read More]

Obituary

Sierra Leone’s former Vice President Solomon Berewa has died

March 5, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2020: Mr Solomon Berewa – the former Vice President and Attorney General of Sierra Leone, serving the SLPP Tejan Kabbah government after the 2002 elections, passed away today at the Choithram Hospital in the country’s capital Freetown, aged 81. Solomon Berewa contested presidential election in [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone police arrests civil rights activist and 40 students

March 5, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 15

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2020: The Executive Director of the Citizens Advocacy Network (CAN), Thomas Moore Conteh and forty students of the Limkokwing University, have today been arrested and detained without charge by the Sierra Leone Police in Freetown. They were arrested whilst on a peaceful procession, calling on [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone – worrying signs, will the government review its World Bank approach?

March 4, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2020: The swift departure of Penny Goldberg from the chief economist role at the World Bank is a good example of what can happen when the world of public officialdom and that of academia combine – or in this case, clash. Initially, [Read More]

Education and Health

President Bio calls for more precautionary measures ahead of Coronavirus in Sierra Leone

March 4, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2020: Yesterday, President Julius Maada Bio went to visit officials at Lungi International Airport and local hospital in the north-western district town of Lungi to discuss measures that are in place to prevent and avoid the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Addressing [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone bans sale of foreign currency by street vendors and other unlicensed agents

March 3, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 25

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2020: The governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone – Professor Kelfala Kallon yesterday announced a major shake-up of the country’s foreign exchange market, banning the buying and selling of foreign currencies by street vendors and all unlicensed agencies across the country. Anyone caught violating [Read More]

Education and Health

School children in Sierra Leone will soon be learning in safe and healthy environment

March 3, 2020 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with other UN agencies is providing strategic technical assistance to the government of Sierra Leone for the formulation and implementation of a National School Health Policy and Strategy. The new policy and strategy will create a safe, [Read More]

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