Victor Megot Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2017 The increasing urbanization of the Western Region in Sierra Leone has equally led to the demand for land to build affordable housing. Unplanned development and encroachment on forest land, water tributaries and catchment areas is rendering the Peninsular forest reserve a disaster-prone [Read More]
Joseph Macarthy Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2017 Unless urban planning is taken seriously in Sierra Leone, there’s a risk that similar disasters like the mudslides could occur with potentially more devastating consequences. The country is still reeling from the effects of a mudslide that killed nearly 1000 people and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2017 Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella – one of the leading contenders for the presidency of Sierra Leone at elections to be held on 7th of March 2018, has today waved goodbye to the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). The presidential hot favourite has this afternoon [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2017 Insight – the only magazine for those who do business in Sierra Leone – has launched an annual survey of working hours in Sierra Leone to find out more about Sierra Leone’s work culture. In its inaugural survey into working hours, Insight is aiming [Read More]
Anthony Kamara Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2017 Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella, presidential flagbearer aspirant, is poised to exit from the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). The announcement which is reportedly scheduled for this week, will see about forty senior officials also abandoning the party. Sierra Leoneans will recall [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 September 2017 Members of the Children’s Forum Network (CFN) known as the Children’s Parliament for all Children in Sierra Leone were at the Don Bosco orphanage foundation in Freetown yesterday, Saturday 2nd September, 2017, where they carried out work to help children worst affected by the [Read More]
Emmanuel Osuteye and Hayley Leck Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2017 On Monday 14 August, the world awoke to reports of devastation caused by large-scale mudslides and localised flooding in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s rapidly urbanising capital. The death toll rose within a few days to approximately 500, with several hundred [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2017 A few months ago, Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad were appalled and outraged to learn once again that president Koroma had left the country to seek medical check-up and care in Europe; and also that the country’s information minister – Mohamed Bangura was [Read More]
Francis Ben Kaifala Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31st August 2017 When I see Sierra Leoneans shamelessly paying toll to Chinese vulture businessmen after being betrayed by our own government, I feel depressed in my quiet university apartment in the United States. Bai Bureh, an illiterate who did not even have the [Read More]
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