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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2021: US based Africanist Press Media has today published another seriously incriminating report about grand corruption in the Bio-led SLPP government of Sierra Leone, as the country’s anti-graft agency – the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), is accused of waging a selective war on corruption. The Report [Read More]
WHO: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2021: Health authorities in Guinea yesterday declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N’Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first time the disease has been reported in the country since an [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: Following confirmation yesterday by the Guinean Health Ministry that four people had died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone says it [Read More]
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