Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, on Monday April 28, 2025, called for people-centered leadership while delivering the opening reflections at the Salone Day National Symposium, marking Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary. The event, organized by the Ministry of Information and Civic Education, was attended [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2025: On April 27, 1961, the people of Sierra Leone danced in the streets, waving green, white, and blue flags, celebrating the end of colonial rule and the birth of a new nation. With optimism swelling, Sir Milton Margai became Sierra Leone’s [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never called an empire, but its hegemony was never far from the British, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: Many Africans across the continent are uncertain about President Trump’s Africa policy – what it is, and how it will impact the lives of hundreds of millions. This uncertainty became even more worrying after President Trump’s recent offer of military assistance to the government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: International organisations, creditors, and other stakeholders in the Zimbabwe arrears clearance and debt resolution unanimously acknowledged on Monday that tremendous progress has been made after two years of an extensive Structured Dialogue process but observed several challenges that need to be addressed. (Photo above: [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is showing some resilience despite uncertainty in the global economy and restricted fiscal space. Regional growth is expected to reach 3.5% in 2025 and further accelerate to 4.3% in 2026-2027, according to the latest edition of Africa’s Pulse, published [Read More]
Dr Yusuf Bangura (Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: US President Trump is viscerally opposed to foreign aid. As a transactionalist, he believes that there should be immediate returns to himself or the US for whatever money or favours he dispenses. He doesn’t believe in soft power. Indeed, his [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: An increase in vaccine coverage in Africa is helping protect millions of people from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio and cervical cancer, according to a joint statement published yesterday by the Vaccine Alliance – Gavi, UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO). In 2023, vaccination [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2025: The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, will be presented with the 2021 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize at the University of Pennsylvania, USA this Friday 25th April. The 2021 award presentation was delayed due to COVID-related restrictions that prevented in-person gatherings. This special [Read More]
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