Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) Dr. Alie Sanjan Kabba, has disclosed that President Julius Maada Bio will soon be heading for a UN meeting in New York. President Bio will attend as Head of State and leader of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2018: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is running a $400,000 project in Sierra Leone to help train 150 youths (120 women and 30 men) in eight slum communities around the capital Freetown, on waste recycling. UNDP says that the project is aimed at empowering [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice – Charles Margai has today been sacked by president Bio, after serving less than two months in the job. It is not clear what prompted his sacking. But sources close to the president, told the Sierra [Read More]
Franck Kuwonu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2018: Thanks to a unique fellowship at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) as an Ibrahim Leadership Fellow, Marian Yinusa is making an impact in the lives of school-age girls in her birthplace of northern Nigeria. Currently a senior financial economist [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2018: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and executive director of UN Women, recently began a second term in office. In her first term, she drew attention to women’s issues globally, getting some countries to change gender discrimination laws. In this interview with Africa Renewal’s Kingsley [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Since the end of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, successive governments have made little effort to fully implement the country’s State Enterprises Privatisation Strategy, which was drawn up with the assistance of the World Bank and DFID. Dogged by political interference, incompetence [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s economic recovery is far too reliant on the mining industry, especially iron ore export, which in the last six years has experienced serious turbulence, as a result of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and global economic downturn. If the economy is to recover [Read More]
Erin Accampo Hern: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Women are less likely than men to participate in politics in Africa. This gender gap affects everything from attending community meetings to contacting elected officials, joining others to raise public issues, expressing a partisan preference and even voting. On average, women [Read More]
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