Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 May 2017 Although presidential and general elections are less than ten months away, neither of Sierra Leone’s two main political parties – the APC and SLPP, are anywhere closer to announcing the name of their respective presidential candidate. Both parties are locked in fierce internal divisions [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2017 An IMF staff team led by Giorgia Albertin visited Conakry from May 15 to 25, 2017, to discuss recent economic and financial developments and Guinea’s economic prospects. The team prepared the ground for a future visit for the negotiation of a new IMF-supported program. [Read More]
Salaam Deen Bundu Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2017 Hundreds of female leaders (Soweys) of the sacred and highly respected secret, all-female Bondo Society, converged in Waterloo last Friday, 19th May 2017, to perform traditional rites for the unveiling of newly initiated Sowey leaders. The mammoth gathering of ‘Soweys’ from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 May 2017 Condemnation of Sierra Leone’s ruling APC is mounting, over the construction of a new seven storey party office in the centre of the capital Freetown, part funded by the Chinese Communist Party, amid growing poverty and early death for many malnourished adults and children [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay- CHINA Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2017 By July, 1971, Sierra Leone and China had established diplomatic relations on the foundation of mutual trust and respect. These ties of cooperation experienced a surge, when, in the same year, just three months after entering into diplomatic ties, Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2017 Young men trained and employed to take on the task of cleaning Freetown, in a new effort to change the image of the city, have been caught using vehicles meant for this purpose to make cash on the side for their own personal gain. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2017 Any lingering doubts that Africa is not a priority for Donald Trump’s America were erased when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson snubbed newly elected AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki. Writing in theconversation.com, Tshepo T. Gwatiwa argues that the snub should spur African states – [Read More]
Sultan Kargbo Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2017 The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs has completely dissociated government from the story – “Religious Leaders schooled on FGM strategy”, published in the New Citizen newspaper on Thursday 18th May 2017. Speaking to journalists in Freetown on Friday, 19th [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2017 “You have sold everything – please don’t sell the soul of our sovereignty – our democracy,” Kapri Kolugbonda tells the president of Sierra Leone, as condemnation of the ruling APC party’s steep descent into the bowels of Chinese economic imperialism grows. Critics of the [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph Reserves Copyright