Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2022: Last Thursday, 10th of November 2022, President Julius Maada Bio received Sierra Leone’s Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) validation report, scoring the county 87.5. Commenting, President Bio said: “I want to start by congratulating the EITI validation team members for their great diligence in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2022: The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) last week launched a study report entitled, “A Review of the Administration of Electoral Justice in Sierra Leone: Challenges and Opportunities for Reforms”. Funded by the Irish Embassy, the study report provides an assessment of [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone telegraph: 13 November 2022: America conducted its Midterm elections on Tuesday, which traditionally takes place two years after a Presidential election. In effect, midterm elections are America’s referendum on their sitting presidents, halfway through their four- year terms. Joe Biden was slated as the least popular [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina has a nuanced view of what a just transition to renewable energy means for Africa. He believes it should be pragmatic and sensitive to Africa’s development reality but not antithetical to the [Read More]
Jean-Paul Adam: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: Environmental activists carrying placards protest calling for action on climate change, in Nairobi on September 20, 2019 (Photo above). We are all hoping that Africa’s COP can be a pivotal moment in bringing certainty on climate action. But can the climate emergency [Read More]
Andrew Mold: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: The climate talks (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt this November come at a time when momentum on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is picking up with the recent launch of the guided trade initiative – an initial pilot of eight African countries [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: Ugandan youth climate activist Leah Namugerwa (Photo above) speaks during the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit (SCIS) of the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 07, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Scores of young African climate activists have arrived in Sharm [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyer has returned to Sierra Leone following her attendance at COP27, where she represented Freetown and Sierra Leone on the World Stage. Her presence at COP27 was significant, given President Bio’s absence at this major world summit, which is focused [Read More]
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2022: Two days ago, we marked the Seventh Anniversary of the Declaration of the End of the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone. We lost 3956 of our brothers and sisters, in some instances whole families and villages were wiped out. Today [Read More]
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