Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2018: Every year South African investigative journalists are recognised for their hard work when the winners of the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative Journalism are announced. This year has provided a chance to assess the highs and the lows of our investigative reporting after an extraordinary year. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2018: Cross border e-commerce continues to provide significant growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers with an international online product offering. According to a 2017 DHL report, cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020 (from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2018: Standard Chartered Bank today announced the official launch of its digital bank in Côte d’Ivoire. This marks the Bank’s first digital bank in Africa and the first-of-its-kind to open in Côte d’Ivoire. Mr. Bruno Nabagné KONE, Minister of Information technologies and communication of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 March 2018: Today, Alhaji Dr Kandeh Yumkella – the Presidential Candidate for the National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, addressed the people of Sierra Leone, especially the 174,031 people who voted for him and his party last Wednesday. Yumkella polled 6.9% of all the votes counted to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 March 2018: “My fellow Sierra Leoneans, on Tuesday 13th March 2018, the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission announced the results of the Presidential Election conducted on Wednesday 7th March 2018. Nearly 58% of those who cast their votes, voted for change. I particularly feel deeply [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2018: The ruling APC party leadership are recovering from the defeat they suffered at the first round of presidential election, as the opposition SLPP takes the lead. The ruling APC candidate – Dr Samura Kamara polled 42.7%, and the opposition SLPP candidate – Julius Maada [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2018: As countdown begins for the final stage in Sierra Leone’s presidential election, questions are being asked as to how the ruling APC could have suffered such resounding rejection by the people of Sierra Leone. Despite their lofty campaigning, over 57% of electorate rejected the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2018: On Tuesday, 27 March 2018, the people of Sierra Leone will do it all over again. They will be going out to vote in what was announced by the country’s Chief Electoral Commissioner – Mr Mohammed N’fa-Alie Conteh as a run-off election, to decide [Read More]
Trevor Jenkins-Johnston: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2018: Its red letter day today for Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission (NEC), after announcing last night that it could not declare the final 25% results, due to serious irregularities discovered in several polling stations, in addition to the 83 stations where malpractice [Read More]
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