Abdul Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister’s remarks in UK reflect a deeply concerning attempt to minimize the growing international narcotics concerns associated with Sierra Leone. (Photo above: President Bio and Chief Minister Sengeh). It is troubling that, rather than directly addressing the serious reputational [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: On the occasion of Africa Day 2026, Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), and Mr. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi and the Chairperson of the African Union, have issued a united call for accelerated integration, global [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: Senior African finance leaders attending the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Annual Meetings in Brazzaville have called for coordinated action to unlock an estimated $250 billion in assets held by the continent’s development finance institutions to support Mission 300), a joint initiative by the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: Angola’s oil sector has demonstrated how reform can transform a market on the cusp of rapid decline into an industry capable of attracting billions of dollars in investment. NJ Ayuk’s latest book titled Crude Oil: Power, Turnaround, and Transformation in Angola explores this transition, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has released its 2025 Annual Report, showcasing another year of strong development results and reaffirming its commitment to advancing a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and integrated Africa. Despite a challenging global environment marked by slower growth, tighter financial conditions, [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Some pandemics don’t strike the body—they slash the tongue. They spread through prosecutions and public warnings, and through the quiet calculations people make before speaking. Sierra Leone is living through that contagion: a pandemic of fear, marked by lowered voices, deleted [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Many of you have likely seen the video—women stripped bare in the street, their bodies turned into public property, their pain turned into public entertainment. It is a violence so obscene it seems to knock the breath out of language itself. [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: For years, Sierra Leone’s authorities dismissed allegations that the country was becoming a strategic transit hub for global cocaine syndicates. Every major seizure linked to Freetown was met with the same institutional reflex: denial, deflection, and carefully worded press statements. But [Read More]
Josef Skrdlik / Oliver Dunn (OCCRP): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2026: Wife of Sierra Leone’s President – Fatima Bio is again under fire as she holds onto her subsidized flat more than a year after OCCRP and The Times exposed her tenancy at the property. A British lawmaker has [Read More]
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