Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 October 2018: The decision of Sierra Leone’s Electoral Commission (NEC) to cancel polling last Saturday in a by-election in Ward 196 of the Kambia district, has been criticised by the country’s main opposition APC party, who claims they’ve won the election. But the violence which erupted [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2018: Yesterday’s cancellation of by-election polling in ward 196 of the Kambia District in northern Sierra Leone, after violence erupted which led to the death of a young man, has been criticised by the opposition APC party. Writing in a public statement issued today, this [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2018: A young man has died in a shocking orgy of political violence in a northern town of Sierra Leone where by-election was being held yesterday, in Ward 196 constituency of Kambia District in the Tonko Limba Chiefdom. According to conflicting and unconfirmed reports, the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2018: On Thursday, the newly-elected President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, told the United Nations, that “with a strong belief in a shared vision and a common destiny, Sierra Leoneans stand with the [international community] in meeting the world’s challenges.” Acknowledging the role that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2018: Yesterday, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone delivered his maiden UN general assembly speech to world leaders gathered in New York, just six months after he was elected president. His speech comes amid allegations by the country’s main opposition APC party of human [Read More]
Mousa E. Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 September 2018: Justice Bintu Fatmata Alhadi has sentenced a Nigerian named as Gozie Udoka Isaac, who was arrested at Lungi International Airport with 20.797 kilogram of cocaine to twenty years imprisonment. The convict was initially charged with seven counts for allegedly transporting cocaine [Read More]
Mousa E. Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 September 2018: The Director of Crime Services, Chief Superintendent Brima Jah has disclosed to journalists that thirty-one (31) Chinese nationals are going to be deported for illegal mining activities in Kono and Tonkolili districts. He made the disclosure to journalists at a conference [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 September 2018: Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, co-hosted the second annual Goalkeepers events on September 25 and 26 to highlight the remarkable progress toward the reduction of extreme poverty, and the need to accelerate efforts to achieve the United [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 September 2018: The African Development Bank called on global partners to join hands to lift one billion people worldwide out of hunger and said it was leading the way by investing US$24 billion in African agriculture over the next 10 years in the largest such effort [Read More]
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