Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2015 After months of political dithering and growing accusations of using the Ebola emergency regulations for party political advantage, president Koroma has today finally decided to lift most of the measures that have been in place for a year. Today’s announcement will give much needed [Read More]
Abdul Rashid Thomas – Editor Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2015 Over two thousand people attended the funeral yesterday – August 5th, 2015, of one of Africa’s best known musicians – Bunny Mack, who passed away last month in London after a short illness. (Photo: Bunny’s coffin being escorted by [Read More]
Abu Ormoh Leigh Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 201 Sierra Leoneans will look back on Koroma’s time in office as “the lost years” when the nation failed to reap the peace dividend and lay the foundation for a sustainable future. Like the rest of the world, Sierra Leoneans are watching [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2015 The controversy surrounding the purchase of 100 Chinese buses for $12 million dollars continues to create a stir. There is now a deafening chorus, demanding investigation and prosecution of those alleged to have misappropriated public funds, and engaged in corruption and bribery [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2015 The United States government has issued a statement, following the killing of a top Burundian general and close aide to President Pierre Nkurunziza yesterday, Sunday in a drive-by shooting in the capital Bujumbura, heightening tensions after a disputed presidential poll. General Adolphe Nshimirimana was [Read More]
Jennifer Lazuta (IRIN) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2015 News that an Ebola vaccine trialed in Guinea has proved 100 percent effective has elicited both excitement and caution from a range of actors closely involved in the outbreak, which also struck Liberia and Sierra Leone and has claimed more than [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2015 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and wife – Madam Yoo (Ban) Soon-taek, last week hosted a farewell luncheon for Dr. and Mrs. Kandeh Yumkella in New York, to show their appreciation for his outstanding services to the United Nations. Yumkella, whose tenure of office [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2015 In 2007, President Ernest Koroma came to power with a determined mindset to fight corruption. He then went on to enact one of the tightest Anti-corruption laws in the sub- region – the Anti-Corruption Act of 2008. (Photo: Joseph Kamara). This [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2015 Never before in the post-independence political history of Sierra Leone has a candidate for the country’s highest office – the presidency, shown so much determination and enthusiasm to reach out across the political divide, in order to establish a broad political coalition that could [Read More]
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