Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2023: Last Thursday, 5th January 2023, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr received a Certificate of Commendation from Italy’s Florence City Council. The award was presented by Ms Antonella Bundu. Speaking about the award, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr said: “I was deeply touched by the words of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 January 2023: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Sierra Leone met on 29th December 2022 under the Chairmanship of the Governor, Professor Kelfala Kallon to review recent developments in the global, regional, and domestic economies and financial markets, and their implications for Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2023: Classed as one of the poorest nations in the world that cannot survive without handouts from the international community, questions are being asked about the rationale for spending millions of dollars in constructing a foreign service academy in Sierra Leone. Why should building a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 January 2023: With general and presidential elections less than six months away, the people of Sierra Leone and the capital Freetown in particular, are praying and hoping for a much better 2023, after five years of brutal economic decline that has seen a massive fall in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2022: Decades of poor governance, corruption and political instability have left the people of Sierra Leone wondering whether the abject poverty they suffer today will ever be a thing of the past, or remain a curse brought upon the nation by rogue, selfish, and inept [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2022: Pele, the Brazillian football legend passed away peacefully in his sleep in hospital in Brazil yesterday – 29th December 2022, after losing a long battle with cancer, aged 82. The hospital released a statement which read: “The Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein regretfully confirms the [Read More]
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2022: When you die, the good is oft interred with the bones. So said Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. The comments over the death of Veteran Journalist Phillip Neville, have reached a new level of political diatribe and hate. Some misguided members of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 December 2022: Sierra Leone’s veteran journalist and media mogul – Philip Neville, passed away early this morning – Wednesday, 28th December, 2022 at the Choithram Memorial Hospital in Hill Station, Freetown, after sustaining severe head injuries in a hit-and-run motor bike accident. According to reports, Philip [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 December 2022: In 2020 Mayor Giuseppe Sala of Milan and Mayor of Freetown Aki-Sawyerr, co-founded the Mayors’ Dialogue – a city-led platform for Africa & Europe that aims to create opportunities and improve the lives of citizens, especially addressing the high levels of youth unemployment in [Read More]
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