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]

Memuna Forna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2019: It was 8am on Friday, 1st November 2019 at the Bintumani Conference Centre, and there was an immediate sense that here was a different type of event – energetic, polished, witty and tech savvy, with a clever layering of showbiz. This was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2019: Sierra Leone is classed as one of the poorest nations on earth, and possibly also one of the most corrupt in Africa. This has to change, and president Bio it seems is in a hurry to do just that. With hundreds of millions of [Read More]

Aminata Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2019: Granted his government has done well in a space of eighteen months, compared to the former APC Government of Ernest Bai Koroma that persistently failed to pass any benchmark put in place by the MCC for over five years. The 2020 MCC [Read More]

Moris I. Kanteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2nd November 2019: The latest Millennium Corporation Challenge (MCC) 2020 Scorecard report published on Friday, 1st November 2019, has seen Sierra Leone register an extraordinary 79% out of a possible 100%. It is  the biggest ever rating in the country’s effort in controlling corruption, since [Read More]