Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2023: Freetown’s most popular and successful Mayor – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has today confirmed that she will be running for re-election on June 24th, after completing her five-year term as the most hardworking mayor the city of Freetown has ever had, despite political witch-hunt by the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2023: Liberia is among four countries benefiting from the signing of new commitments to education projects, which took place at the United Nations fifth Least Developed Countries conference in Doha on Tuesday. Education Above All (EAA) and the Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) hosted a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2023: The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report shows. In 2022, the global [Read More]
Setcheme Mongbo / Nadia Rasheed: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2023: We are living in an increasingly digital world that provides new and exciting opportunities for growth and development. And yet women around the world are disproportionately left behind when it comes to accessing and benefitting from these opportunities. This [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2023: Five years ago today, NGC gained four Parliamentary Seats at the 2018 general election, one District Chairman, and took control of Kambia District Council. The Party was attributed 6% of the total nationwide votes cast, by the National Electoral Commission, after massive [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: In Doha, Qatar, last Saturday 4 of March, President Dr Julius Maada Bio addressed a pre-summit gathering of the Fifth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs. He spoke about the opportunities for member countries to engage and identify actions and partnerships at [Read More]
Alusine Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: In Sierra Leone, public-facing women – including women leaders, women human rights defenders, and women journalists – face an increased risk of threats, intimidation, online insult, and violence. According to a recently published report, these threats are often made in an attempt [Read More]
Stephen V. Lansana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: Orange Sierra Leone, the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG), Bintumani Hotel, Atlantic Hotel, and 12 other companies have breached the Sierra Leone Local Content Act 2016, the Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) said on Wednesday. Fodeba Daboh told a news conference [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2023: Yesterday, President Bio commissioned a newly built passenger terminal at Freetown Lungi International Airport, where he spoke about his reasons for embarking on such an ambitious and costly project, which he said will be of massive economic benefit to Sierra Leone. But even before [Read More]
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