Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2019 Yesterday, 8 November 2019, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance – Jacob Jusu Saffa laid out his budget plans and spending forecasts to parliamentarians, which the government says is designed to tackle poverty and relieve the economic suffering of people in the country. He called [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2019: President Julius Maada Bio is today attending an extraordinary session of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, taking place in Niamey, Niger. The Summit which is being chaired by the President of Niger and Chairman of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2019: Commonwealth law ministers have unanimously resolved to remove barriers to access to justice in their respective countries, and to deliver Sustainable Development Goal 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions by 2030. The biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting concluded today with a set of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2019: The Parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday, Thursday 7th November 2019, passed into law with some amendments – the Bill entitled: ‘The National Commission for Social Action Act, 2019’, following a debate on a Report presented by a joint-committee. The parliamentary joint-committee chaired by Hindolo [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2019: As parliamentarians prepare to receive the SLPP government’s 2020 Budget and Financial Statement tomorrow Friday, 8 November, to be delivered by finance minister Jacob Jusu Saffa, president Bio has today announced a snap cabinet reshuffle. Although a cabinet reshuffle was expected after calls from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 November 2019: As concerns grow across the country about the state of the economy of Sierra Leone, with rising food prices and falling value of the Leone, the executives of Sierra Leone’s opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party, has today broken silence. This morning the NGC [Read More]
Patricia Scotland – Commonwealth Secretary-General: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2019: Our world seems to be changing faster than ever – technologically, environmentally, socially – and in so many other ways. It is hard for any of us to keep up with the astonishing pace and scale of developments and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2019: The newly appointed Chief of Mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Sierra Leone, Ms. Karen Ongley, and her Resident Representative, Dr Monique Newiak, yesterday met president Bio at State House in Freetown, where they discussed a new partnership aimed at addressing the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2019: Yesterday, a delegation from the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone, donated 20 solar-street lightings and fittings, as well as smaller indoor and outdoor solar lightings to the Freetown City Council (FCC) to help ease electricity difficulties faced by residents across the capital. The items [Read More]
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