Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2025: Sierra Leone has implemented Meridian, an advanced Commonwealth Secretariat software, to better manage its public debt portfolio of USD 1.08 billion. This upgrade will enable the government to track loans and repayments in real time, improving financial transparency and decision-making. At the government’s request, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2025: After much uncertainty about the peace accord signed by the ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC in Sierra Leone, after the controversial June 2023 general and presidential elections, which ushered in a Tripartite agreement aimed at the implementation of recommendations of a Report [Read More]
Dr Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: Many of the world’s rare minerals are in the DRC. Western companies are heavily involved in mining them. They prefer a weak government in Kinshasa that they already control to an unstable environment that threatens their investments and access to the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), the European Investment Bank (EIB), with the support of the European Union (EU), today announce a €100 million financial partnership to support climate action and environmental sustainability projects in the ECOWAS region. A project with a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa’s foremost trade development Bank, last week in Mombasa, Kenya, ratified a series of initiatives designed to support Kenya’s industrialisation and export-led development agenda. Under the terms of the initiatives, formalised at a signing ceremony with the Kenyan authorities, Afreximbank [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: Last Friday, the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the UN representations in both countries, officially launched the GOLA-REAP (Resilience, Empowerment, Access, and Peacebuilding) project at Bo Waterside, Liberia. The event brought together government officials, representatives of the UN in Liberia [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: For decades, Africa has been subjected to a pattern of coercion disguised as diplomacy. It is a cycle that repeats itself with every new U.S. administration, regardless of whether the president is a Democrat or a Republican. The recent events at [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: According to report by The Brussels Times, the notorious Dutch drug criminal ‘Bolle’ Jos Leijdekkers (Dutch for ‘tubby Jos’) who according to Dutch police is the most wanted person in the Netherlands, was last week sentenced to another prison term of 13 years in [Read More]
Alusine Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: Ethnic politics and traditional chieftaincy struggles have long shaped the socio-political landscape of Sierra Leone. The ongoing crisis in Gorama Mende Chiefdom is a striking example of how deeply entrenched political allegiances and tribal affiliations can fuel conflicts, threatening national cohesion. At [Read More]
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