Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio today called for the formation of a sustainable partnership to address the country’s perennial energy shortage, which he said is costing the government over Le140 Billion in subsidy to provide electricity. Addressed a roundtable of energy sector stakeholders, he [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: President Dr. Julius Maada Bio today responded to the Report on the Targeted Review on Health Governance and Covid -19 Response in Sierra Leone. Speaking to eminent leaders from across the continent at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown, this is what President Bio [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: One of the poorest slum communities in the capital Freetown – the Susan Bay community was engulfed in a massive blaze of fire last night, destroying properties and leaving thousands of people destitute. It is not clear what could have started the fire, but [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: Marking this year’s World Water Day on Monday 22nd March 2021, the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone (CCSL) has expressed serious concern about the levels of pollution in many of the rivers in Sierra Leone, especially the Taia River. According to the CCSL, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: As the debate continues over the rationale of the government of Sierra Leone’s proposed legislation on cyber-crimes which has gone through its second and penultimate reading in parliament, the minister of information – Mohamed Rahman Swarray has held whistle-stop meetings with students at the [Read More]
RSCSL: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2021: The Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL), along with its Civil Society partners, today commemorated the 30th Anniversary of Sierra Leone’s Civil War. On 23 March 1991, thirty years ago today, fighters from the Sierra Leone Revolutionary United Front (RUF) crossed into Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2021: In the past, politicians in Sierra Leone would invoke sections of the notorious Public Order Act that criminalized libel to suppress free speech and the press. Several sections of that Act were repealed in 2020. But the proposed cyber-crime legislation that has been tabled [Read More]
National Minerals Agency (SL): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2021: In April 2018, His Excellency, Retired Brigadier Dr Julius Maada Bio became President of Sierra Leone, and, among other things, he promised to transform the minerals sector. The Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources (MMMR) and the National Minerals Agency [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2021: The Residual Special Court Prosecutor said today that it is investigating allegations in Liberia and Sierra Leone of unlawful contacts with witnesses who testified before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL), including offering bribes to witnesses to recant their previous testimony. In a [Read More]
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