Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2020: Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States of America after a nail biting finish which saw the incumbent president Donald Trump kicking and screaming to the Courts calling for counting of votes to be stopped, sensing he was losing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2002: Twenty-four women founders and entrepreneurs, driving economic growth and development for Africa, have been selected as finalists for 2020 Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Awards. The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum – a leading pan-African entrepreneurship and innovation non-profit, has announced [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2020: Sierra Leone government’s students loan scheme which was proposed by President Julius Maada Bio during his inaugural address in the House of Parliament in 2018, has received overwhelming support across the country, with the latest endorsements coming from opposition leaders in parliament. The students’ [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2020: Last Thursday, the management of Mercury International presented a cheque of Le 500 million to President Dr Julius Maada Bio to support the construction of a multi-storey classroom building for the St. Joseph’s Convent Secondary School in Freetown. Managing Director of the Sports Betting [Read More]
Helen Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 November 2020: May 1st 2020 to November 1st 2020 marked exactly six months since the arrest and detention of Sierra Leone’s female politician and journalist – Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden after making comments on television about the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic which [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2020: European Union’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone – Mr Tom Vens, last week called on the government of Sierra Leone to demonstrate “heightened standards of transparency and accountability” in the management of funds received by the government to help fight the COVID-19 virus epidemic in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2020: In June 2020, during cross-examination of Government’s Witness, Police Superintendent M.K. Alieu at the 10-Counts Seditious and Defamatory Libel court case brought by the Government of President Julius Maada Bio against popular female opposition politician Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden of the All Peoples Congress [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2020: A leaked letter signed by Sierra Leone’s Attorney General refusing calls for the government to allow an interim auditing of the government’s use of COVID-19 funds, has caused a stir, with the opposition political parties and the media criticising the government for its lack [Read More]
ARTICLE 19: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2020: ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns excessive use of force by security forces and the riots by supporters of political parties in the aftermath of the presidential election in Guinea. At least 21 people were killed, including three children, hundreds of people wounded and [Read More]
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