Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio, today held talks at State House in Freetown, with the World Bank Country Director for Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana – Pierre Frank Laporte, about the country’s preparedness for any possible Coronavirus outbreak in the country. Presenting the World [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2020: By all accounts, the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) seems to have been doing a good job. NCRA has responsibility for the continuous, permanent and compulsory recording of occurrences and characteristics of vital events including births, deaths, marriages, divorces, nullities, adoptions etc. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2020: A Commonwealth gathering has called for an end to gender inequality by 2030 so every girl can have the same opportunities as boys. Meeting ahead of today’s celebration of International Women’s Day, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland joined a gathering of leaders, celebrities, academics and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 march 2020: The old adage – ‘what goes up must come down’ came true in Sierra Leone yesterday, when fuel suppliers in the country decided to reduce prices just weeks after they were increased. Yesterday’s drop in prices by an average Five Hundred Leones (Le500) per [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2020: Electricity theft and non-payment of electricity bills by households and businesses, have for far too long been the main cause of poor levels of investments in the sector and the frequent electricity blackouts suffered across the country. But the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2020: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation yesterday announced that there is no winner of the 2019 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. This decision has been made following deliberations by the independent Prize Committee, the statement says. Announcing the decision, Prize Committee Chair Festus Mogae [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2020: Yesterday, the Executive Director of the Citizens Advocacy Network (CAN) – Mr Thomas Moore Conteh and dozens of students of the Limkokwing University were manhandled, arrested and detained by the Sierra Leone Police in Freetown at a peaceful protest march, calling on the government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday met partners of the European Union (EU) in Sierra Leone, to discuss the country’s development process as the economy continues to flounder. Efforts to attract foreign investors especially for key sectors of the economy are yet to bear [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2020: Mr Solomon Berewa – the former Vice President and Attorney General of Sierra Leone, serving the SLPP Tejan Kabbah government after the 2002 elections, passed away today at the Choithram Hospital in the country’s capital Freetown, aged 81. Solomon Berewa contested presidential election in [Read More]
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