Chris Heathcote: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2018: The first Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town at the beginning of November. Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International, who addressed the event, reflects on the vital importance of openness and transparency for successful and sustainable infrastructure projects. [Read More]
NGC Publicity Office: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2018: The National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party has learnt with consternation, news reports that the Ernest Korma-led APC Government recently rushed three major mining agreements with little or no debate through Parliament. Each of those agreements could have huge and adverse economic [Read More]
John Mannah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 January 2018: The vast majority of Sierra Leoneans have been yearning for change in the last two decades of the country’s history – most especially, change from economic doom and gloom to prosperity. And it will be an understatement, to say that we have [Read More]
Yei Manga: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 January 2018 Brigadier Bio has been elected since November 2017 to lead the SLPP to the March 2018 presidential and general elections. We have less than two and half months to that coveted date. While the other two major parties – APC and NGC [Read More]
Noorudin KaiKai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2018: I am of the opinion that Freetown and Kono would probably decide who gets to be President in the upcoming elections, because they hold the highest percentage of swing voters in the country. However, I do not believe that the APC party [Read More]
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2018: The Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has yesterday, January 3rd 2018, constitutionally elected Mrs. Emma Kowa-Jalloh, as the party’s new Southern Regional Chairperson. This was after the previous holder Edward Soluku stepped down to contest his old parliamentary seat in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 January 2018: After months of dithering and shuffling of chairs on the decks, the opposition SLPP will tomorrow Thursday, 4th January 2018, announce the name of the party’s presidential running mate to accompany Julius Maada Bio to the March 7, 2018 elections. Rumours are rife as [Read More]
Agence France-Presse (AFP): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 January 2018 Four months after the landslides that killed her husband and more than a thousand others, Mariama Kamara has returned to the mountainside that collapsed onto their home to live in an unfinished building. Kamara is one of the hundreds of Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2018: As presidential and general elections approach, president Koroma has spent the last few weeks traversing the entire country, in what has been described by the ruling APC party as a ‘thank you tour’. But his ‘thank you tour’ is controversial and causing political tension. [Read More]
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