Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: Just when taxpayers of Freetown – the capital of Sierra Leone are beginning to breathe a sigh of relief from the Bio-led government’s recent onslaught and campaign of attrition aimed at bringing Freetown City Council and the Mayor to their knees, political tension has [Read More]
Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: It was inevitable. This fall from grace, our descent into the whirlpool of amorality, after our independence from colonialism. It was inevitable that we would allow the best inherited virtues, institutions and laws to collapse, after they fell into the hands of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Dr Akinwumi Adesina says his passion to mobilize global capital for Africa’s development will continue way beyond his presidency of the African Development Bank, which ends on 1st September 2025. (Photo above: Afdb President Akinwumi Adesina and his wife, Mrs Grace Yemisi Adesina, with [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Sierra Leone is a country where emotions have overridden logic in politics. What used to be a straightforward matter of governance, development, and leadership has now become a sentimental battlefield where people argue not on the basis of truth or vision, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) last week Monday, 28th July 2025, announced a two percent reduction in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 21.75%, alongside cuts to the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) to 14.75% and the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, last Tuesday, 29th July 2025, presented his government’s 2025 Supplementary Budget (The Supplementary Appropriation Act 2025) to Parliament. The Supplementary Appropriation Act 2025 is an adjustment of the 2025 Budget that was approved by Parliament [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Shelter Afrique Development Bank (ShafDB) has announced the signing of a strategic agreement with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) to support its transformative capital increase initiative. Effectively, BADEA has approved a landmark USD 120 million to support the capitalization program [Read More]
Michael Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 July 2025: Every December, the airports in Lungi and Freetown welcome a wave of well-dressed Sierra Leoneans returning from the diaspora. They arrive with suitcases full of gifts, dreams of reconnecting with their roots, and sometimes even ideas of relocating for good. But by [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 July 2025: The Freetown City Council (FCC) has announced a bold and comprehensive Central Business District (CBD) Regeneration and Beautification Project aimed at restoring order, improving sanitation, and enhancing the overall aesthetic appeal of Sierra Leone’s capital city. Speaking at a press conference hosted by the [Read More]
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