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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2019: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it has today, 28 June 2019, completed its review of Sierra Leone’s economic performance. And as a result of this review, it has agreed to disburse the sum of $21.62 million to the government of Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2019: There are continuous and sustained calls for the former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, to step down from active politics. But the president and his supporters say he is going nowhere. Critics say that he needs to make way for a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 June 2019: A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mika Saito, visited Monrovia June 12 – 24, 2019 to discuss possible financial support under the Extended Credit Facility. According to the IMF, the mission supports the authorities’ objectives of restoring macroeconomic balance in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2019: Last Thursday, 20 June 2019, Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission (NEC), presented its Annual Report to President Julius Maada Bio, which included updates on ongoing preparations for all forthcoming elections to be conducted in the country. Chief Electoral Commissioner, Nfa Alie Conteh, said that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2019: When president Julius Maada Bio took office over a year ago, he promised to take the fight against corruption, where ever the evidence leads. Twelve months on, the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has recovered Billions of Leones from former government officials. Corruption in high [Read More]
James Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2019: Sierra Leone’s newly appointed minister of planning and economic development – Dr. Francis Kai-Kai, has vowed to go all out to ensure that, under his leadership, national planning and economic development processes follow a ‘people-centred’ approach. Speaking in an exclusive interview, he [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2019: The English National Health Service (NHS) reduced post-operative deaths by 37.2% following the introduction of globally recognised surgical guidelines – paving the way for life-saving action in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a new study reveals. Researchers at the University of Birmingham, UK, have [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2019: Supporters and well-wishers of the National Grand Coalition Party (NGC) have questioned the rationale behind the decision of the party to boycott elections held in Sierra Leone, after failing to make significant impression at the March 2018 general and presidential elections, which saw the [Read More]
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