Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2026: A controversial proposed agreement that would have handed sweeping tax concessions to the biggest importer of oil to Sierra Leone, Aminata & Sons Limited, has been derailed by lawmakers following an outcry over its fiscal impact. The decision blocks a move that MPs warned [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party’s National Chairman – Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray, has passed away in Pôle Santé de Dakar Clinique Mixte in Dakar, Senegal after a long illness. Alhaji Foday Yansanneh has been serving as Acting Chairman, during Minkailu’s long stay in London [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2026: This has been a troubled week for Mrs Fatima Bio, the wife of Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, desperately defending her position on female circumcision, following a bruising interview with the BBC the previous week, answering questions about her relationship with Europe’s most [Read More]
Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s former Chief Minister and Foreign Minister – Professor David Francis, has written a book. It is titled Governing a Poor Country. Do not be fooled by the academic polish. This is not a study. It is a defence. Francis [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Beyond the sad fact that President Julius Maada Bio and his SLPP government have brought shame and suffering to the poor people of Sierra Leone who are ranked one of the poorest in the world, in a country that has no business being poor [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Nigeria’s vice president Senator Kashim Shettima has said Nigeria’s ambition of building a one-trillion-dollar economy is driven by enterprise, investment, and coordinated reforms across all levels of government. He particularly identified Lagos State as the clearest demonstration of how subnational leadership can accelerate national [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph:10 June 2026: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has announced that its President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr George Agyekum Donkor, has been named as the recipient of the Distinguished African Development Finance Leadership Award – Regional Integration & Economic Transformation at [Read More]
Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 June 2026: In 2008, following the unauthorised landing of a plane carrying cocaine at Sierra Leone’s Lungi international airport, the country’s response was a radical strike against impunity: a Certificate of Emergency to enact the National Drugs Control Act. The Act redeemed the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 June 2026: The Commonwealth Observer Group to the 30 April 2026 general elections in Antigua and Barbuda has released its final report, calling for urgent reform of constituency boundaries while commending the overall peaceful and transparent conduct of the polls. The Group reiterated concerns first raised [Read More]
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