Graça Machel. Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Dr. Vera Songwe. Maria Ramos: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2020: COVID 19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens which women carry the world over. Allocation of response resources should be targeted towards the immediate needs [Read More]
James Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2020: For many around the world, COVID-19 is a first experience of a pandemic. For the people of Sierra Leone, there is spectral familiarity to what is unfolding in the country. With the outbreak of Ebola in May 2014, about 4000 people lost [Read More]
Ibrahim Bendu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2020: Reporters from over ten of Sierra Leone’s leading registered newspapers have confirmed that even as corona virus is spreading inside the Freetown prisons among prisoners, the authorities in Sierra Leone have left the prisoners without adequate water supply for the past ten [Read More]
BBC Africa Eye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2020: Africa Eye investigates the impact of the deadly Coronavirus in one of the poorest communities in Kenya – Mathare, one of the biggest and most densely-populated slums in Nairobi. The arrival of coronavirus threatens to devastate the fragile economy of Mathare, [Read More]
Joint reflexions by United Nations Senior African Officials: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2020: A desperate yearning for a long-departed mother. Reaching deep from the bowels of fragile humanity. Gasping for breath. Begging for mercy. The entire world heard the tragic cry. The family of nations saw his face pounded [Read More]
Justine Coulson. Roberta Clarke. Mohamed M. Fall: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2020: The passing of laws to end child marriage resulted in blocking thousands of child marriages and enabling second chance education for girls. However, these gains made over the years are in jeopardy in the age of COVID-19. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2020: Yesterday, Chief Executive Officer of the National Public Procurement Authority (NPPA) – Ibrahim Brima Swaray, presented his 2018 Public Procurement Assessment Report to President Dr Julius Maada Bio, which outlines details of procurement spending by government departments and agencies under the former APC government, [Read More]
Milton Margai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2020: In Sierra Leone, armed robbers are becoming braver by the day. Sierra Leoneans are raising concerns over the spate of armed robberies in the country, and calling on the police to be more vigilant. According to the Regional Commander of Freetown East [Read More]
NRA Public Affairs Unit: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2020: Revenue Mobilization is a key instrument for the Government of Sierra Leone in increasing financial independence, achieving middle income status and delivering on the ideals of the New Direction programs in the country. The last two years have witnessed some [Read More]
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