Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: Speaking in the southern provincial district of Pujehun last Friday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio said that in the next eighteen months his government will build and furnish a Junior and Senior Secondary School of Excellence exclusively for girls. “It will cater for 300 [Read More]
Saffea Komba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR, whilst addressing the Supreme Court in the matter of her Elections Petition case against the 2018 election of President Bio, has argued against the striking out of her Petition. Representing herself in person, she was speaking on [Read More]
Dr Steven Sam and Dr Ximena Schmidt: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: A new digital platform for rescuing indigenous and traditional knowledge of agriculture and food systems to promote sustainable food security in Sierra Leone, is being established by a team of researchers from Brunel University London, the Open [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2021: Sierra Leone is at cross-roads. For the first time in recent memory the opposition leaders in Parliament are holding the Presidency to account. It seems Chernor Bah and his colleagues in the Africanist Press have caused a seismic shift in our polity, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2021: The outgoing United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone – Maria Brewer, has ended her mission in Sierra Leone. She was at Presidential Lodge in Freetown yesterday, where she met the country’s president – Dr Julius Maada Bio to say goodbye. Speaking to the president, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph 18 February 2021: It is not often that Madam (Canon) Cassandra Garber who is the President of the Krio Descendants Union of Sierra Leone and overseas, comments publicly on matters of State in Sierra Leone. But she has this week broken her silence to join the large [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2021: UK High Court on Monday dismissed Sierra Leone’s challenge of a 2020 International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) decision over claims by SL Mining after a dispute over its iron ore mining operations in the country. Formal arbitration proceedings have yet to begin as Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2021: WTO members made history yesterday, 15th of February, 2021 when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General. When she takes office on 1 March, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today concluded his two-day working visit to Conakry, Guinea where he and his Guinean counterpart signed an agreement to re-open the land border that has been closed since early last year. The communique states that: “Based on mutual [Read More]
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