Mayor Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2021: I had the pleasure yesterday of meeting with Jeff Bezos, Founder and Executive Chairman of Amazon at COP26 where we discussed the design, implementation and monitoring of the “Freetown The TreeTown” project. Thanks to the World Resource Institute for making this introduction. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio today addressed the 26th Conference of Parties, COP26, of the UN Framework Conventions on Climate Change (UNFCCC), promising a climate-resilient future and making a case for Sierra Leone’s ecosystems, one of the most diverse in the world. “Inland wetlands [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2021 Sustainable Markets Initiative and The Perfect World Foundation, and its initiative – Climate AID, have teamed up as collaborating partners to accelerate the just transition to sustainable markets as set out in the Terra Carta, in order to integrate common efforts and to amplify [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2021: The new Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) will be launched today at COP26 to accelerate investment in green energy transitions and renewable power solutions in developing and emerging economies worldwide. Over the next decade, the Alliance aims to unlock USD100 billion in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2021: Dr Kandeh Yumkella, Parliamentary leader of Sierra Leone’s opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party and Member of Parliament representing Samu Chiefdom in the Kambia District, Sierra Leone, yesterday arrived in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, (COP26). The [Read More]
Mayor Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 November 2021: Yesterday, at the start of the biggest climate event this year, I joined C40 Cities Chair-Elect and London Mayor Sadiq Khan along with other C40 Cities Steering Committee members in reaffirming our commitment as Mayors to fight against climate change. We believe [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2021: The European Union’s Election Follow-up Mission to Sierra Leone last week published a damning statement about Sierra Leone judiciary’s neutrality in administering electoral laws, and the National Electoral Commission’s (NEC) conduct of fair elections. Chief of Mission – a Member of the European Parliament, [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2021: President Bio came to power in 2018, and made the fight against corruption, among others his signature vison and policy. But he wisely reminded us all, that the fight will not be easy or go unchallenged. He famously said that “Corruption will [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2021: Norbert Neuser – a Member of the European Parliament and the EU Election Follow-up Mission and his team, held discussions with former President Koroma – the outgoing Chairman and Leader of the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC), at his residence in Freetown on [Read More]
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