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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2015 According to the ministry of health in Freetown, the recently concluded International Conference on Africa’s fight against Ebola held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea focused on the need for Africa to help itself in the Ebola recovery and reconstruction. The conference was attended by African [Read More]
Columba Blango – Chairman of KKY Movement UK Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2015 The Ebola Crisis has brought home to many people a sad truth that they had been trying to avoid. And after the high hopes of the first few post-civil war years, Sierra Leone is still broken. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 July 2015 Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court has today ruled that the Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP), must refrain from conducting any form of elections, before the court makes a final ruling on the substantive matter relating to the conduct of the party’s 2013 executive elections and [Read More]
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