Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2026: Caracas did not awaken to a coup declared or a government dissolved. It awoke to interruption. In the hours before dawn, parts of the city fell into darkness. Electricity failed across several districts. Communications faltered. Then came the reports, first fragmented, [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 January 2026: Every nation is shaped as much by what it remembers as by what it chooses to forget. Some grow by accumulation – layer upon layer of effort, error, correction, and endurance. Others, more tragically, grow by erasure. They mistake amnesia for [Read More]
African Energy Week: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 January 2026: Africa’s major pipeline projects hold transformative potential, but financing, technical and regulatory hurdles continue to shape their pace and impact. While Africa possesses vast hydrocarbon resources, decades of underdeveloped infrastructure continue to limit the economic potential of its oil and gas [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 January 2026 The Government of Liberia has taken a key step towards implementing the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) following the signing of a national declaration of commitment after a three-day national technical workshop held in Monrovia from 15–17 December 2025, with support [Read More]
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2026: Sierra Leone recorded a total of 306,0057 live births in 2025, with females accounting for 51 percent (156,089) and males 49 percent (149,968), producing a sex ratio of 96 males per 100 females. This is according to the National Civil Registration Authority’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 January 2026: Dear Freetonians, as we draw the curtains on 2025, I am deeply grateful for the unwavering support you have shown to the work of the Freetown City Council throughout the year. Like every year, 2025 came with both achievements and challenges, but together we [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: On Saturday, 20 December 2025, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, accompanied by councillors and staff of the Freetown City Council (FCC), toured six project sites implemented by grantees of the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. The visit showcased innovative, youth-led initiatives aimed at addressing the [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: The dirty secret of development is that it is never neutral, and it is never painless. Every serious attempt at national transformation threatens someone’s power, privilege, or access to resources. That is why development so often stalls, not for lack [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: As global attention cautiously drifts back to West Africa, a troubling narrative is beginning to take shape. Shifts in rhetoric from Western political figures including U.S. President Donald Trump’s blunt foreign-policy worldview are reviving familiar anxieties about Nigeria’s political future. For [Read More]
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