Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2019: A Commonwealth facility designed to assist smaller and more vulnerable countries tackle the damaging effects of climate change has helped them access USD 27 million of funding. The figure marks a milestone for the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub and is more than 35 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2019: Yesterday Tuesday, 17 September 2019, the newly appointed World Bank Country Director for Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana – Pierre Frank Laporte, who took up office in July this year, held a meeting with president Bio of Sierra Leone at State House in Freetown. [Read More]
Dr. Kandeh Yumkella: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2019: African governments and their donors and partners are already committed to investing in skills-building and job creation. Given its implications for employment, development, and migration, there is a strong case for channelling a significant share of that investment toward Africa’s distributed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2019: A new report on poverty in Sierra Leone which will be published on 1 October 2019 by Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) shows a small decrease of 5.6% in poverty between 2011 and 2018. According to the findings of the 2018 Sierra Leone Integrated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2019: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today launched its third annual Goalkeepers Data Report, which features new data showing that while progress on health and development continues unabated, global inequality remains a major barrier to achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals). According [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: 17 September 2019: It is slightly difficult to disentangle the signal from the cacophony on the socio-economic hardship and the guerrilla warfare of Sierra Leone’s politics. However, the predatory form of politics which stimulates its own spin and sound-bites is gradually taking over an entirely complex story [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2019: President Julius Maada Bio has today announced measures to curb the increasing spate of examination malpractices. He made this announcement at the opening of the newly Comprehensive Primary School at No.9 Community in Freetown. Addressing the nation, president Bio said: “Examination malpractice destroys the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2019: The Ombudsman of Sierra Leone – Mr. Leon Jenkins-Johnston and his team, will travel to various districts in the provinces, starting from tomorrow Tuesday, 17th September to Wednesday 25th September 2019. The purpose of the visit is to give opportunity to the people in [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s modern day history will never be complete without a mention of our passing acquaintance with violence. But this is not to give the impression that we are a violent nation or people; nor is it aimed at minimising the effect [Read More]
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