Concerned citizen: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2019: It is a fact that Sierra Leone’s economy is taking a nose dive. Whether it is the cost of goods, rising inflation or stagnated wages, a lot of people measure the performance of the economy against the Leone versus US Dollar exchange [Read More]
Prince Jacob Macauley: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2019: People of Sierra Leone have come to realize that we cannot keep on doing the same thing and hope to get different result. The economic policies that have been followed are not helping; and we have an ongoing economic crisis as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2019: Her 73 year old dad – Mr Victor Remoe-Doherty, was picked up over two weeks ago by the police, after violence broke out in Hamilton, Freetown, between supporters of the ruling SLPP and the opposition APC party. He was then locked up at the [Read More]
Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2019: The inhabitants of Freetown have sinned. They have sinned against the trees, the land, the rivers and streams. They have sinned against the environment, they have sinned against mother nature herself. We all know the ultimate wages of sin, death. Last Friday’s [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: 9 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister, Mr Jacob Jusu Saffa (JJ Blood) is facing the spotlight, for what some people see as his failure to revive an ailing economy. Others have gone as far as saying that he is now fighting for his political or ministerial life. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2019: Today’s news headlines in Sierra Leone’s newspapers concentrate on a wide variety of issues, ranging from the economy to the government’s response to the environmental crisis and humanitarian disaster now facing the country after heavy rainfall and reckless deforestation to make way for housing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance – Jacob Jusu Saffa is today fighting to keep his job, as pressure mounts on president Julius Maada Bio to transfer him to another ministerial role, following increasing calls for his sacking. Saffa is accused of incompetence and failing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2019: A specially convened meeting hosted by Maria E. Brewer – U.S Ambassador to Sierra Leone was held at the U.S Embassy in Sierra Leone today, where mobile phone service provider – Africell, confirmed that a $100 million financing agreement with the Overseas Private Investment [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2019: An internal Sierra Leone Government memo making the rounds on social media, signed by president Bio’s Secretary, is calling on ministers and senior government officials to refrain from travelling abroad until further notice, to help reduce rising government spending. This memo comes amid growing [Read More]
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