Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2020: The latest Ibrahim Index on African Governance (IIAG) report published by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation yesterday, shows a decline in overall progress across the continent, for the first time since 2010. There has been a decline in security and the rule of law in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2020: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone today made good on his promise to review all ongoing cases of criminal and seditious libel in the country’s courts, of which there was only one – that of Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, following his government’s repeal [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2020: The 2020 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), launched today by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, highlights a decline in African governance performance for the first time since 2010. The 2019 African average score for Overall Governance falls by -0.2 points below that of 2018, [Read More]
BBC Africa Eye – Peter Murimi, Joel Gunter and Tom Watson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2020: Babies are being stolen to order in Kenya to feed a thriving black market. Africa Eye infiltrated the trafficking rings selling children for as little as £300. Somewhere, Rebecca’s son is 10. (Photo [Read More]
Chernoh Alpha M. Bah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2020: Few weeks ago, we reported in the Africanist Press how Leadway Trading Company used containers rather than cubic meters as a unit of measurement thereby violating Section 3 of the Finance (Amendment) Act of 2018, leading to a deliberate undervaluation [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2020: The decision by the Bio government to axe the former government’s Mamamah Airport project was a catastrophic mistake. Some might argue, with justification – based on spotted commentaries on social Media – that regional politics is at play here. However, many [Read More]
CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2020: Political accountability means that the government, civil servants, and politicians are accountable to the public and legislative bodies such as the legislature in the case of Sierra Leone. Without political accountability, the systems may degenerate into autocracy and dictatorship. (Photo above: Mr Abdul [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2020: Yesterday, Thursday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio addressed the second annual Pan-African development conference on innovations in agriculture, trade and investment titled: “Creating the Africa, We Want, Creating the Sixth Region We Want – through Agribusiness, Research, and Innovation”. The virtual meeting, convened by [Read More]
Elizabeth Scaffidi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2020: Cristina Duarte of the Republic of Cabo Verde is the new Special Adviser on Africa to the UN Secretary-General. A former Minister of Finance and Planning in her country, she intends to bring to her role a renewed strategic narrative of ‘Africa by [Read More]
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