From our correspondent in Freetown 22 June 2016 As results of the Sierra Leone People’s Party lower level elections held on Saturday 18 June 2016 emerge, the Sierra Leone People’s Party membership has demonstrated a desire for hope over fear. Initial results from these elections show that nominees are supportive [Read More]
Cheryl Omotunde Blyden Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2016 There is a fake letter dated June 15th 2016, claiming to be from the Social Welfare Ministry. It shows the unauthorised names and passport details of individuals pretending to be government officials from the Sierra Leone ministry responsible for signing the [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2016 When your clothes are made of cassava leaves, you don’t take a goat as a friend. We seem to be thinking of ourselves and our assumed enclaves only, rather than our country. We seem to have become the land of the timid [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – Information Attache, Sierra Leone Embassy – CHINA Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2016 I have had the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Samura Kamara twice as Sierra Leone’s Foreign Affairs Minister. I must admit he has always proven to be an intellect, one with a sound resume [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2016 In Sierra Leone today, millions of children and young people are struggling through the daily grind of basic existence, battling disease, poor health care, poverty, poor access to good quality education, and society’s ambivalence to their needs, with far too many trapped in the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2016 When the president of a nation sends a text message to every citizen, demanding that they must refrain from using foreign currencies, then one gets a sense of the deep economic crisis that has befallen the country. This is the text message that president [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2016 On Friday, 10th June 2016, Dr Kandeh Yumkella addressed over a thousand people at the University of Makeni. The aspiring presidential flagbearer of Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the SLPP, spoke on the theme “Developing Our World – the Post 2015 Agenda”. In [Read More]
Abdulai Braima Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2016 This is Sierra Leone. There is, here, no pampering pillow to cuddle. What there is, is a pulverising political war, raging like a consuming inferno that will sculpture no saint If we in the SLPP cannot fight together to avert the onset [Read More]
Politico: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2016 There are reports of a major security breach at the Lungi international airport, of a man attempting to board an Air France plane with petrol, a matchbox and a cigarette lighter, among other items in his possession. A three-and-a-half hour long closed circuit [Read More]
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