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  • [ April 30, 2026 ] European Union delegation in Sierra Leone urges opposition APC to return to parliament Politics & Law
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Economy & Business

West Africa gets a new currency – it’s called the ECO

July 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 27

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2019: Starting next January 2020, countries within the West African sub-region will be able to use a single currency called the ECO. The new single currency was adopted by the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government last Saturday, in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, after decades of [Read More]

Economy & Business

IFC invests $60 million in Sierra Rutile Limited

July 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2019: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has today announced a $60 million investment in Iluka Resources’ Sierra Rutile Limited to partner with the resources company, as it expands its operations in Sierra Leone, where it is the largest tax payer, private employer, [Read More]

Economy & Business

Fuel price rises above inflation in Sierra Leone

July 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2019: Yesterday’s decision by fuel companies in Sierra Leone to increase the pump price of petrol by more than 21%, has sparked fears of further rise in inflation which currently stands at about 17%. The price of petrol has gone up from Seven Thousand Leones [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone punching above its weight at ECOWAS

July 1, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 July 2019: Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio last Saturday, called on fellow heads of state from the West African region to take strong measures to tackle corruption in the region’s representative body – ECOWAS. Since coming to power over a year ago, president Bio has [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone’s Fourth Estate – the media under attack

June 30, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Pastor Mohamed Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2019: What transpired at Magistrate Court Number 2 in Freetown last Friday, 28th June 2019, in front of Inquiring Magistrate Mark Ngegba, can be safely described as a conspiracy of sorts between his Bench and the Bar against the Fourth Estate in [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone – We will remain focused and never be distracted

June 30, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2019: “I am delighted to open this investors’ conference on the Tender process for the proposed Lungi Bridge. It is one of our priority areas for investment leading to economic diversification. “We believe infrastructural investment should not burden the country [Read More]

Economy & Business

A Bridge too far or Sierra Leone’s new Abuja?

June 30, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 16

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2019: There is no doubt that the world we live in today is full of complexities. But more to this, is the irrefutable fact that the world is increasingly becoming divided along several layers of the socio-economic strata – thanks to our political [Read More]

Obituary

Freetown’s 1970s socialite and icon – Michael Alphonso Kalley dies

June 29, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 June 2019: It is with deep sadness that the family of Freetown’s 1970s socialite and icon – Mr. Michael (Mike) Alphonso Kalley, announces his death, which took place on the 27th of June 2019, at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown, Sierra  Leone. He was aged 66. [Read More]

Economy & Business

President Bio to speak about 3D Printing and Block Chain technology at a conference in Uganda

June 29, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 June 2019: President Julius Maada Bio is in Abuja, Nigeria where he is attending the 55th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The 55th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of [Read More]

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