Politics & Law

Uganda set to digitalise its parliamentary processes to strengthen accountability and democracy

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2025: In a bid to strengthen institutional capacity for legislation, oversight and representation, Uganda’s Parliament will start an e-Parliament project. This is contained in the country’s Parliament’s Strategic Plan for the financial years, 2025/2026-2029/2030 that was launched at Parliament on Friday, 26 September 2025. The [Read More]

Economy & Business

New UNEP analysis estimates $66.8 billion needed annually for forest finance in tropical countries

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: The Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP) – a focused effort of 34 governments committed to maintaining high-level political leadership on forests – two days ago launched the ‘Forest Finance Roadmap for Action’, in collaboration with the Government of Brazil and with support from [Read More]

Education and Health

Gates Foundation partners with Indian manufacturer to drive down cost of groundbreaking HIV prevention tool

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2025: Millions more people at risk of HIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will have access to a powerful new prevention option: a low-cost, generic version of lenacapavir, the world’s first twice-yearly injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). A new partnership announced today between the Gates [Read More]