Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2020: The swift departure of Penny Goldberg from the chief economist role at the World Bank is a good example of what can happen when the world of public officialdom and that of academia combine – or in this case, clash. Initially, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2020: Yesterday, President Julius Maada Bio went to visit officials at Lungi International Airport and local hospital in the north-western district town of Lungi to discuss measures that are in place to prevent and avoid the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Addressing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2020: The governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone – Professor Kelfala Kallon yesterday announced a major shake-up of the country’s foreign exchange market, banning the buying and selling of foreign currencies by street vendors and all unlicensed agencies across the country. Anyone caught violating [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with other UN agencies is providing strategic technical assistance to the government of Sierra Leone for the formulation and implementation of a National School Health Policy and Strategy. The new policy and strategy will create a safe, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2020: There has been much criticism thrown at the government of Sierra Leone’s seeming unpreparedness for any onslaught of the Corona Virus, which is predicted could affect most countries of the world in the coming weeks and months. But today, the Ministry of Information and [Read More]
NJ Ayuk: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2020: As pressure mounts to phase out fossil fuels in Africa to fight climate change, various organizations including the World Bank and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have dropped support for African fossil fuel production, in hopes of encouraging a transition from oil, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2020: Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health has today Friday, February 28, 2020, confirmed its first coronavirus disease (COVID-19) case in Lagos State, which also marks West Africa’s first. According to the Health Minister, the case is an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2020: Speaker of Sierra Leone’s Parliament – Dr. Abass Bundu has summoned the Director General of the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) – Mr. Mohamed Massaquoi to appear before members of parliament to justify his public notice published last week, threatening citizens to register with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today launched the first phase of Sierra Leone’s Social Safety Net Programme in Kenema, that is aimed at strengthening livelihood systems, through job creation schemes for the poorest, skills development initiatives and micro-enterprise schemes. Addressing the ceremony which [Read More]
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