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Economy & Business

Sierra Leone peace diamond sold to Graff Diamonds in New York for $6 million

December 4, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Emmanuel I. Kamara Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2017 If rumours making the news on social media is anything to go by about Sierra Leone’s so-called Peace Diamond, it will be the biggest surprise for Sierra Leoneans in 2017. A reliable source has disclosed to this writer that Graff Diamonds [Read More]

Politics & Law

Why we need change in Sierra Leone – authoritarian impulse is a drag on development (Part 2)

December 4, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Yusuf Bangura Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2017 I define an authoritarian impulse as an urge to submit or compel others to submit blindly to authority. Such an impulse rejects individual choice, freedom and competition in choosing those who govern, and opt instead to concentrate power in the hands of [Read More]

Election Watch

NGC Presidential Flag-bearer Dr Yumkella collects his voter card at Kychom

December 2, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2017 Kandeh Yumkella, the National Grand Coalition (NGC) presidential standard-bearer, yesterday Friday, 1 December 2017 collected his voter registration card from the polling centre at his hometown of Kychom. Elections in Sierra Leone are due in March 2018. Yumkella spent the day in Bombali District [Read More]

Economy & Business

Black African slaves in Libya – why is the world turning a blind eye?

December 2, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2017 In a recently, hastily but belated arranged summit convened by the African Union(AU) and European Union (EU) in Cote Ivoire, an evacuation plan was devised to remove migrants facing abuse in Libyan detention camps. The plan was to send migrants back to [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone to benefit from $200 million World Bank solar project

December 1, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2017 Sierra Leone is among nineteen countries in West Africa that will benefit from a World Bank funded regional off-grid electrification project. The aim is to provide beneficiary countries with needed support to develop a sustainable and scalable off-grid solar energy market through the Lighting Africa Program. [Read More]

Economy & Business

Ruling of the African Court on Human Rights rejected by Ghana’s Supreme Court

November 30, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2017 The decision of a five-member panel of Justices of the Supreme Court of Ghana is that “there’s no real factual and legal basis for Ghana’s Supreme Court to share its powers and jurisdiction with any other court”. The Ghanaian Supreme Court’s rejection of the [Read More]

Economy & Business

South Korea supports housing development for Freetown flood disaster victims

November 30, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Abdul Malik Bangura Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2017 Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to South Korea – Omrie Michael Golley, welcomed a delegation of three South Korean experts in the construction of low-cost housing, who arrived in Freetown on Tuesday 28th November 2017. The team of experts, who are from the [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone National Electoral Commission held to account as elections loom 

November 29, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2017 There are worrying reports from Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance, regarding a leaked letter from the ministry to the National Electoral Commission (NEC), calling on the NEC to account for Billions of Leones funding, issued to the NEC to cover its weekly expenditure. According [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Koroma’s sacking of social welfare minister has left deep wounds

November 29, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2017 If president Koroma has been expecting the dust to have settled after his controversial sacking of the country’s social welfare minister – Dr Sylvia Blyden, then today’s press statement issued by the national group representing women in the country – The Women’s Forum, should [Read More]

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