Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2023: Concerns about the quality of the Voter ID Card have dominated national and social media, since it emerged that a significant proportion of Voter ID Cards for the 2023 Elections are defective in some way, either with the wrong photo or no [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2023: Yesterday was public holiday in Sierra Leone as Muslims all over the country end their one month of fasting, culminating in the Eid-ul-Fitr prayers. On the eve of Eid, the former Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, visited several Mosques across the city, where she donated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2023: The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development (EJS Center) has announced the third cohort of accomplished African women set to join its flagship program, the Amujae Initiative. The initiative was launched in 2020 by former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the [Read More]
Bob Massally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2023: “The continuation of these trials in running up to Elections certainly disadvantages those candidates involved; and as in the case of Dr Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara, it is image denting and potentially affecting his popularity and that of his political party. “To [Read More]
Sorie I Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 April 2023: As the June 24, 2023, multi-tier election draws near, Sierra Leoneans at home and in the diaspora are closely monitoring the process in the build up to this long-awaited event. In addition to the concerns raised about the level of preparedness [Read More]
Dr Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2023: Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, former Mayor of Freetown is running for the same seat under the ticket of the All People’s Congress (APC). Many will agree with me that her exemplary leadership and developmental trajectory in Freetown was unquestionable. It is again obvious [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2023: One of Sierra Leone’s most successful female media entrepreneurs, chief executive of Zed Zee Media Enterprise – Zainab Sheriff was arrested yesterday, accused of producing and sharing video on social media which the police say is offensive to President Bio and his wife. The [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura (Nyon, Switzerland) : Sierra Leone Telegraph : 18 April 2023 : Statistics Sierra Leone carried out a mid-term population and housing census in December 2021. The declared purpose of the census was to review the country’s development status since the previous census of 2015 and update the base maps and enumeration [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2023: The government of Sierra Leone is fast running out of cash to meet its monthly financial obligations, as revenue from export earnings and general taxation continue to fall dramatically. On 4th April 2023, the President wrote this memo to ministers, telling them to stop [Read More]
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