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Education and Health

First pupils graduated at Freetown City Council’s Early Learning Adventure Centre

July 27, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2021: Last Friday, five pupils graduated from the Freetown City Council’s (FCC) Early Learning Adventure-Congo Water Market, in Wellington – first of the FCC’s pre-school centres for children of market women. A few months ago, at the start of the academic year, FCC enrolled 40 [Read More]

Politics & Law

NRM welcomes Ernest Bai Koroma-led executive’s compliance with high court orders

July 27, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 15

Osman Bikal Kamara NRM): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2021: We, in the National Reformation Movement (NRM) in the All People’s Congress, welcome the H.E Ernest Bai Koroma-led executive’s notice of compliance with the orders of the High Court of Sierra Leone. What most attracted us in the press release [Read More]

Politics & Law

Opposition APC prepares to hold national convention to elect new leaders

July 26, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2021: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) is at serious risk of imploding, following last week’s fracas outside the party office where the leaders of the party refused to allow senior party grandees – Dr Abdulai Conteh, former speak of parliament – [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Bio in London for Global Education Summit 

July 26, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday departed Sierra Leone for London, where he will be attending the Global Education Summit: Financing GPE 2021-2025, scheduled for 28 – 29 July. The President is attending the world’s biggest education conference on the invitation of British Prime [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Police refusal to enforce High Court ruling undermines the rule of law

July 26, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2021: There are hundreds if not thousands of cases that the courts in Sierra Leone have passed judgement on over the years, that are still awaiting enforcement by a police force few in the country have faith in when it comes to upholding justice and [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone has abolished the death penalty

July 24, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 12

Siera Leone Telegraph: 24 July 2021: Parliamentarians in Siera Leone have voted unanimously to abolish the death penalty after intense debate, making the country the 23rd African state to end capital punishment, widely regarded as a legacy of British colonial law enforcement regime. Since gaining independence in 1961, successive governments [Read More]

Politics & Law

ACC convicts former Rokel Commercial Bank official

July 24, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 July 2021: Sierra Leone’s High Court presided by Justice Simeon Allieu on Thursday convicted Mohamed Sheku Turay, a former Banker at the Rokel Commercial Bank on two counts of corruption offences. Turay was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred million Leones (Le 100,000,000.00) immediately [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone’s Covid response agency challenges UK government travel red-list

July 24, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 July 2021: Chairman of Sierra Leone’s National Corona Virus Response Center (NaCOVERC) Mr. Sheku F. Bangura has criticised the UK government’s decision to place Sierra Leone on its Covid red list of countries. Speaking at a press conference in Freetown last Wednesday, Mr Bangura said that [Read More]

Economy & Business

U.S. invests in Ghana’s Upper West Region to tackle poverty among subsistence farmers

July 22, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2021: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the West Africa Trade & Investment Hub, has awarded a $1.2 million co-investment grant to Warc Group, a social enterprise with agricultural production and consulting operations in Ghana and Sierra Leone, to help smallholder farmers [Read More]

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