Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: “Democracy is not a spectator sport – It is a shared inheritance that must be defended by all.” The term imperial presidency was once an American cautionary tale – an oxymoron meant to warn against the overconcentration of power in the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) – the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has published its annual Development Impact Report, presenting a comprehensive, data-driven account of AFC’s cumulative development outcomes across Africa. The report reveals that AFC-backed projects have to date added over US$50 billion to [Read More]
Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: With the failure of so-called intellectualism in helping to shape Siera Leone’s public morality, there is no point dwelling on the remaining aspects of the disastrous Stevens’ years; except that, with the grandiloquent extravagance for the OAU convention, he ensured that this [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: A tragic military helicopter crash in the central Ashanti region of Ghana has claimed the lives of the country’s ministers of defence and environment, along with six other people. It is not yet clear what may have caused the crash. It is reported that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: Just when taxpayers of Freetown – the capital of Sierra Leone are beginning to breathe a sigh of relief from the Bio-led government’s recent onslaught and campaign of attrition aimed at bringing Freetown City Council and the Mayor to their knees, political tension has [Read More]
Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: It was inevitable. This fall from grace, our descent into the whirlpool of amorality, after our independence from colonialism. It was inevitable that we would allow the best inherited virtues, institutions and laws to collapse, after they fell into the hands of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Dr Akinwumi Adesina says his passion to mobilize global capital for Africa’s development will continue way beyond his presidency of the African Development Bank, which ends on 1st September 2025. (Photo above: Afdb President Akinwumi Adesina and his wife, Mrs Grace Yemisi Adesina, with [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Sierra Leone is a country where emotions have overridden logic in politics. What used to be a straightforward matter of governance, development, and leadership has now become a sentimental battlefield where people argue not on the basis of truth or vision, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) last week Monday, 28th July 2025, announced a two percent reduction in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 21.75%, alongside cuts to the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) to 14.75% and the [Read More]
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