Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2018: The World Bank says there’s reason to be optimistic: the globe has reached its “lowest poverty rate in recorded history”. But, writing in theconversation.com this week, Alf Gunvald Nilsen suggests that caution is necessary, and that it’s crucial to move beyond rhetoric when discussing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2018: Officials of World’s football governing body – FIFA, met at their head office in Zurich on Wednesday, 17 October 2018, with the vice president – Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, and the Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Mrs Priscilla Schwartz, to discuss the row which [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2018: I couldn’t help but be impressed by schoolchildren in my village on the day school reopened. Many of them had woken up early, dressed and were eagerly trooping happily to school. These included those who, because of fees had kept away from [Read More]
Sunil Kaushal: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2018: We are fortunate to witness a period of monumental progress in Africa. The changes are visible across all sectors. African start-ups have raised a record breaking $560 million in 2017, an increase of 53% from the previous year. African governments have welcomed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2018: The former social welfare and children’s affairs minister in the Koroma led APC government – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, has rejected a draft report sent to her by the chairman of the nine-man committee, set up by the APC National Advisory Committee (NAC) to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2018: Today marks World Food Day. For the third year in a row the number of people going hungry in the world has increased. By some estimates, over 800 million people don’t have enough to eat every day. Many live in Africa. So what are [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2018: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) is pleased to announce the launch of the 12th annual Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), taking place on Monday 29 October 2018, when the results and analysis will be shared with the public at mo.ibrahim.foundation. To mark the [Read More]
Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2018: To millions of Sierra Leoneans in 2007, the All Peoples Congress party (APC) was a beacon of hope in post Tejan Kabbah governance. But more than a decade on, the party has been mired in countless corruption scandals and infighting, and [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2018 Sierra Leoneans’ distrust of their political system is at an all-time high. Many of us are concerned about the dysfunction in State House and Parliament, and whether things will ever get better. Politics is an industry and the two dominant competitors [Read More]
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