Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s minister of agriculture forestry and food security – Dr. Jonathan Joseph Ndanema has announced that each district in the country has been charged with the responsibility of cultivating 1,000 hectares of rice in order to attain Sierra Leone’s food self sufficiency. He [Read More]
Francis Ben Kaifala: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 March 2019: My attention has been drawn to an article in the Sierra Leone Telegraph, by Joseph Kamara (also “JFK”) which raises legal questions around the amendments tabled before Parliament which, the current leadership of the Commission, believes, will revolutionize the fight against [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 March 2019: There was seeming air of optimism among many Sierra Leoneans when President Maada Bio and the leaders of the 17 opposition Parties met at State House on 1st March this year. Most saw this gesture as a sign of grown up politics. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2019: The Chief Electoral Commissioner of Sierra Leone – Mr Nfa Alie Conteh early this morning declared the SLPP candidate winner of the hotly contested bye-election in the Tonko Limba Chiefdom – Ward 196, in the Kambia District. Mustapha Kamara of the SLPP polled 46.92 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2019: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team led by Mika Saito visited Monrovia from February 25-March 8 to conduct discussions for the 2019 Article IV Consultation with Liberia. At the conclusion of the mission, Ms. Saito issued the following statement: “Liberia’s economic situation is challenging, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2019: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team, led by Jaroslaw Wieczorek, visited Banjul from February 25–March 8, 2019. The team discussed economic and financial policy commitments under a new Staff-Monitored Program (SMP) for 2019. At the end of the visit, Mr. Wieczorek issued the [Read More]
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission is credited with continuing efforts and enjoying the political goodwill in the fight against corruption in the country. To that end, an Amendment Bill has recently been presented to the House of Parliament, seeking to revise certain [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2019: The Executive Chairman of the Sierra Leone Produce Monitoring Board (SLPMB), Dr. James Vibbi last Friday, 1st March 2019, met with the Ambassador of Brazil to Sierra Leone, Mr. Kaiser Araujo at his Brazil Embassy Office in Aberdeen, Freetown, to exchange ideas and explore [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2019: Since losing the March 2018 elections, there have been incessant calls for the country’s opposition APC party to reform or face indefinite stay on the opposition benches, if not extinction. And recently, the party’s parliamentary leaders have come under fierce attack by sections of [Read More]
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