Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2019: It is thought that there are as many as one hundred thousand or more Sierra Leoneans or people with Sierra Leonean passports, living in the United States. Many are believed to be illegal immigrants or serving jail term. After decades of US humanitarian policy [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2019: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has just learnt tonight, that the opposition APC politician and chairman of Sierra Leone’s Western Area Rural District Council has this evening been re-arrested, after he was granted bail this afternoon. He will be spending the night at the notorious [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2019. Another opposition APC politician has been arrested by police in Sierra Leone, in what many now fear is a continuation of a major crackdown on the opposition by the ruling SLPP, as by-election in the Hamilton constituency in Freetown draws closer. This brings the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2019: The government of president Julius Maada Bio is warning mining companies not to expect business as usual, where due diligence, accountability and fiduciary responsibility are sacrificed by those in power for contract kickbacks. This stern warning comes, as the government continues to review all [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s vice president Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, yesterday Tuesday 13th August, 2019, launched the country’s new National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) that will be delivered by the ACC in 2019 to 2023. The Strategy was unveiled at the Miatta Conference Centre, in Brookfields, Freetown, [Read More]
PUAWUI DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2019: I am not an economist. The nearest that I dabbled in the economy of Sierra Leone was when I was Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in the One Party government of the then President Siaka Stevens. I lasted [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2019: China is sending almost 7,000 tons of food aid to Sierra Leone to help cushion the effects of the growing hardship facing millions of Sierra Leoneans, as the government struggles to manage the economic downturn. Millions of people, especially children are at risk of [Read More]
John B. Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2019: Chief Samuel Sam-Sumana was Sierra Leone’s Vice President from September 17, 2007 to March 17, 2015. He was in 2015, expelled from the All People’s Congress, after he was accused of trying to form a breakaway party, among other charges, all [Read More]
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]
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