Amin Key Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2021: The European Union Office in Freetown has announced that it is giving 18 million Euros to the government of Sierra Leone to help pay for the country’s loan repayment to the IMF. In a statement published last Monday, the EU said [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2021: Sierra Leone has again progressed two places upwards in the Transparency International’s Global Corruption Ranking, moving from 119 in 2019 to 117 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI). The country also maintains its score of thirty-three, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2021: Yesterday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio attended the state funeral of the late Flt Lt Jerry J. Rawlings, the first President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana who passed away on 12 November 2020, aged 73. In his tribute to the late former President [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2021: Help has finally arrived for Etta and her twenty year-old daughter, after world-wide publicity by the media including the Sierra Leone Telegraph about her sad story of love, estrangement, and abandonment by her husband in the island of Jamaica. But thankfully, in the last [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021: Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio, yesterday called on UN member states to mobilise support for the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), and has himself pledged $1 million, which he said Sierra Leone will pay annually at a rate of $200,000 over the next [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021: The USAID-funded West Africa Trade & Investment Hub has announced its first co-investment project with Stichting Cordaid (Cordaid), managed by Cordaid Investment Management B.V. (CIM), to increase access to finance by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Burkina Faso, [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021: Just when America is inching its way back from one of its darkest days in history, just when America is returning to some form of optimism and fresh approaches, it may sound preposterous to say that Joe Biden did not win the [Read More]
Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021: First of all, it should be clear to all by now that Guinea has adopted a CRY-BABY attitude over Yenga. Though it is a known fact from African History and the geographical studies of the Mano River basin that Yenga belongs to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021: Following a request from Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation in 2020 to meet the urgent needs of the country’s COVID-19 response, the UN has helped to arrange the shipment of one hundred thousand disposable face masks donated by Guo Kong Health Management [Read More]
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