Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2021: “Although several successes were chronicled during my tenure, those successes were not by any means achieved with ease. There were many challenges that affected work processes and as a result undermined the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the Ministry. Although these challenges, especially those [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2021: Minister for electricity – Alhaji Kanja Sesay, yesterday, Sunday 16th May, conducted on the spot check at the Kossoh Town and Jui Community where unknown persons are alleged to have recently vandalized a 315KVA transformer that provides electricity to over four hundred homes. According [Read More]
Gibril Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2021: A registered company in Sierra Leone by the name of INTEGRATED TRADING SERVICES (SL) LIMITED, owned and operated by Mrs. Fatima Bio – the First Lady of Sierra Leone and wife of president Bio, has through dubious means, signed an agreement with [Read More]
Damien Mama: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: When, in early April, I met Akuvi Sossah, a 52-year-old mother of four at the local medical centre in a northern suburb in Togo’s capital Lomé, she proudly showed me the confirmation code on her mobile phone for her first COVID-19 vaccine [Read More]
Veronica Mukhuna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: Clara Magalasi, who lives in a rural village near Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi, woke up to a grey morning with a dull sky that was threatening rain. For Ms. Magalasi, the weather did not stop her from walking the 4 [Read More]
Josephine Karianjahi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: Josephine Karianjahi is an international development consultant and podcaster from Nairobi, Kenya. As the Co-Director of Africa Podfest and host of the ‘This I Can Do’ podcast, Ms. Karianjahi fosters social change through collaboration and inclusivity in podcasting. In this article, she [Read More]
Abebe Haile-Gabriel: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food insecurity in Africa. However, its success rests on countries’ ratification and implementation, in particular in the agriculture sector. Africa depends [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2021: The latest World Bank report on Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic prospect is bleak. It says that: “Sub-Saharan African countries have managed to keep the COVID-19 virus (coronavirus) under control with relatively low number of cases, the pandemic continues to take a toll on African lives [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2021: The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London early this week announced that the British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone – Mr Simon Mustard will be replaced in August 2021 by Ms Lisa Chesney MBE. The British High Commissioner is the UK government’s representative [Read More]
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