Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: Following active participation in the 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum at United Nations Headquarters, the Youth Charter is issuing a call for a more youth-centred and action-oriented global communiqué. This call urges the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and all Member States to elevate [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: Our nation, and especially Freetown have been gripped by a spate of fire incidents recently. The State House, the Military hospital (34) and a maternal unit in Makeni hospital have all made the news for the wrong reasons. Fires do take place [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail (Abuja,Nigeria) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: On Saturday April 5, 2025, I accompanied Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma to the 8th African Leadership Forum (ALF) in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum, held from 7th to 8th at the Munyonyo Speke Resort, was co-organized by the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: On April 14th, 2025, the Ministry of Information and Civic Education in Sierra Leone issued a press release heralding what it described as a successful conclusion of the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the country. But beyond the polished language and cherry-picked [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: In the early hours of Sunday morning, thick smoke rose above State House, Sierra Leone’s most secure address, as flames tore through the third and fourth floors of the building. Gutted were the Finance and Records Departments, the Office of the Press Secretary, and [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded its latest mission to Sierra Leone this April 2025 with troubling findings, troubling, but not surprising to those of us who have been watching the direction of this government. This time, the IMF reportedly suspended [Read More]
Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2025: On Saturday, April 12, 2025, something unusual – and frankly, quite alarming -happened. Sierra Leone’s State House, the official residence of the President and the beating heart of our nation’s executive authority, caught fire. Yes, that building. The symbol of our sovereignty. [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2025: It was sometime in 2001, in the warm, buzzing office of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. The war had ended, but the scars were still fresh, and conversations about rebuilding were everywhere. I remember sitting with a few international [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2025: In the last hour (6pm GMT), the Sierra Leone Telegraph has received reports of large fire burning at State House in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. The building is the official seat of the head of state and government. Built in 1895, State House was [Read More]
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