John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: Freetown Mayor and C40 Cities Co-Chair, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, on 24 September, 2025, concluded her high-profile engagements at UN Climate Week in New York, underscoring the critical role cities play in driving climate action. Mayor Aki-Sawyerr kicked off the week at [Read More]
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: The 2025 Fiscal Transparency Report (FTR) released on Monday by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs found that the Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) “did not meet international standards of independence.” Sierra Leone was listed among [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: Jaiama Sewafe is a mid-sized town in Kono District, located on the foot of the Nimi Hills and straddled by River Sewa – one of the longest rivers in Sierra Leone. It has an estimated population of about 7,249 that can pass [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: At its 2025 Goalkeepers event, Gates Foundation Chair Bill Gates stood before an audience of more than 1,000 global government, community, philanthropy, and private-sector leaders and issued a stark but hopeful call to world leaders: save millions of children’s lives and make some of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: The Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership (FCLP) – a focused effort of 34 governments committed to maintaining high-level political leadership on forests – two days ago launched the ‘Forest Finance Roadmap for Action’, in collaboration with the Government of Brazil and with support from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2025: The Congolese economy posted modest real GDP growth of 2.6% in 2024, marking a moderate increase in per capita income for the first time since 2016. This finding, according to the World Bank’s new Economic Update for the Republic of Congo, underscores that the [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2025: There is an old saying that goes, “the pot calling the kettle black.” This proverb is often used to describe a situation of irony where one guilty of a particular flaw or offense is the loudest in accusing others of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2025: Millions more people at risk of HIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) will have access to a powerful new prevention option: a low-cost, generic version of lenacapavir, the world’s first twice-yearly injectable pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). A new partnership announced today between the Gates [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2025: In the 1970s and 80s, when performing Hajj was a nightmare for ordinary Sierra Leoneans, a group of visionary Muslim leaders created the Sierra Leone Pilgrimage Movement (SLPM). They gave structure, dignity, and support to pilgrims—especially those from the provinces who [Read More]
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