Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2016 Less than 12% of households in Sierra Leone have access to electricity supply, and even less so among the country’s rural poor. But this week’s announcement by the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 December 2016 Sierra Leone’s President Koroma has said, despite the difficulties that the country is faced with, his government will remain focused to its transformation drive and not allowed to be distracted. President Ernest Bai Koroma spoke on Wednesday, 30th November, 2016, at the Sierra Leone [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2016 President Koroma and key ministers are in China this week to appeal directly and personally to the Chinese political leadership, especially president Xi Jinping. They desperately need help – and they need it fast. Sierra Leone is at risk of falling apart, due to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2016 When the executives of the ruling APC party of Sierra Leone last week announced that they were pulling out of the country’s Constitutional review process, it caused consternation among opposition parties and civil society groups. The question many are left asking after their surprised [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2016 President Ernest Bai Koroma is slated to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday, 30th November, 2016, on the invitation of his counterpart President Xi Jinping of China. During this all important visit, both leaders will be discussing ways of further [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2017 Almost every Sierra Leonean has a story to tell about their painful experiences of the ten year long war that brought so much misery, suffering and death to a nation that was on its last lap of being declared a failed state. By the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2016 The people of Africa may invariably be better off today economically and socially than they were sixty years ago – with an increase in average income per person and higher rate of literacy. But health outcomes continue to significantly lag behind their Asian and [Read More]
Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2015 On October 3rd 2016, our government finally accepted the reality that our economy is bankrupt, with the publication of a press release from State House. The statement detailed austerity measures they will take to improve revenue mobilization and fiscal sustainability, as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2016 Last Friday, 18th November 2016, Sierra Leone’s finance minister Momodu Kargbo delivered the government’s budget statement for 2017 to parliament. It is a budget the government is hoping will address the growing abject poverty, that over 70% of the country’s population is now suffering. [Read More]
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