Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2021: Sierra Leone’s Auditor General – Lara Taylor-Pearce and the Anti-Corruption Commissioner – Francis Ben Kaifala, were both last week summoned by the country’s Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chaired by the Deputy Speaker of Parliament – Sengepoh Solomon to answer questions about the Audit [Read More]
Memuna Forna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2021: In January 2013 Lara Taylor-Pearce, Sierra Leone’s Auditor General (AG) who was appointed in 2011, was summoned to Parliament to appear before the Public Accounts Committee. She had caused a nationwide uproar by making the Audit Service’s 2011 annual report publicly available; something her [Read More]
Guru Mike: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2021: A lot of people make disparaging remarks about the police in Sierra Leone and look on them negatively. However, I recently had an experience that casts one in a more positive light – SLP OSD Hinger Lebbie. I was on a business [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 January 2021: Sierra Leone has run out of its own currency – the Leone. The people are getting impatient and wary of government’s promise to make life better economically, amid rising inflation, falling value of the Leone that has lost over 30% of its value against [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 January 2021: Eron Kiiza, Ugandan human rights attorney and lead counsel of Uganda’s media association, has referred to recent presidential election which took place on Thursday, January 14, 2021 as invalid. He made this statement last Wednesday from his home in Kampala, during a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2021: MIGA, a member of the World Bank Group, has issued guarantees of up to US$25.6 million to Escotel Mauritius covering its investments in solar power generation in Liberia and Sierra Leone for a period of up to ten years. The MIGA guarantees provide protection [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2021: The government of Sierra Leone has imported 2,410 agricultural equipment and 410 tractors for the 2021 national planting season. Last Thursday, President Bio visited the Ministry of Agriculture’s Central Storage facility in Kissy, east of the capital Freetown, where he inspected the range of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2021: Last Friday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio turned the sod for the construction of an ultra-modern general hospital at Kerry Town, Western Rural District in Freetown. Speaking at the event, President Bio said: “I am informed that per the MOU, EASI Trading Limited will [Read More]
Stabroek News: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2021 Etta Isatu Findlay was on her way to earning a medical degree from the Carlos J. Finlay University of Medical Sciences. She said that she left her homeland of Sierra Leone in West Africa, and was receiving medical training at the Cuban [Read More]
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