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]
Ibrahim B. Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2023: Successive governments in Sierra Leone have made education a national development strategy priority but year after year, graduates face an uncertain and bleak future. Last week marked another year of graduation for students who have successfully completed their studies in various [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2023: Former Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr who is up for re-election in two months, has been speaking about her five years in office which she describes as challenging, but with so much more left to be done for the development of Freetown as well [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2023: Dr Kandeh Yumkella who was once regarded by many in Sierra Leone as one of the few principled politicians left in the country, has now confounded even his fiercest critics this week after officially joining the Bio- led SLPP party, where he once campaigned [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2023: On Wednesday, President Bio received a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), as concerns grow over rising political tension and pre-election violence. Presidential and general elections are due on 24th June 2023. Leader of the [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2023: Last weekend, a motley crew assembled outside the office of the comatose National Grand Coalition Party, to confer symbols to aspirants for Councillors and MPs, but with no statement on whether the party will put forward a presidential flagbearer. I understand that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2023: Growth across Sub-Saharan Africa remains sluggish, dragged down by uncertainty in the global economy, the underperformance of the continent’s largest economies, high inflation, and a sharp deceleration of investment growth, according to the regional economic outlook, Africa’s Pulse Vol. 27 – 2023 published last [Read More]
Mallam Osman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2023: One of the development projects implemented by Yvonne Aki-Sawyer as Mayor of Freetown is the much-needed faecal sludge plant in Kingtom and Kolleh Town communities, which is now improving health and saving the lives of people in poor communities. The sludge (sewerage) [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2023: With soaring food prices and the continuous rise in prices of other essential items in Sierra Leone, which the government blames on the war in Ukraine, many Sierra Leoneans are holding the Bio-led government responsible for the economic downturn the country has experienced in [Read More]
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