Macky Sall and Ousmane Diagana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2023: While Senegal’s level of electrification is one of the highest in West Africa with an 80% access rate, many countries on the continent are experiencing a real energy crisis. (Photo above: Macky Sall – President of the Republic of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 December 2023: Ernest Bai Koroma, a former president of Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2018, was at the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown yesterday, where he was questioned by police about an armed attack by persons suspected by the government to have attempted to overthrow the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2023: Police in Freetown have invited the former President of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma to the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown for questioning, after scores of military and police officers were arrested following a series of armed attacks on Sunday, 26 November 2023, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: President Julius Maada Bio today joined mourners, family members, well-wishers and Sierra Leoneans at the inter-faith funeral service of 18 security personnel killed during what has been described by the government as “a failed attempted coup in Freetown” on 26 November, 2023. The President [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: Yesterday Tuesday 5th December – Day 5 of the COP28 World Summit, Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr spoke at the UN Press Conference on the Global Cooling Pledge on behalf of C40 Cities, and then went on to participate in a high level panel at which [Read More]
SierraEye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: Sierra Leone this week announced a landmark agreement with China for the construction of an 8-kilometer bridge connecting Freetown to the Lungi Airport, a project said to be estimated to cost $1.5 billion. While the prospect of improved connectivity between Freetown and Lungi [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: The government of Sierra Leone has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Road and Bridge Corporation and the Atepa Group’s architectural firm, for the construction of a 5 miles long bridge across Freetown to Lungi, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: A new action group announced in Dubai today will help Commonwealth countries, including African member states, rapidly cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane as part of wider efforts to keep rising global temperatures within liveable limits. The country-led coalition was announced at [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: African leaders’ obsession with and fixation on milking their poor nations’ coffers, is really getting out of all proportion. If its not President Bio of Sierra Leone – who has been dubbed “President Fly Fly”, its Tinubu of Nigeria who ought to be setting [Read More]
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