Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 December 2015 A landmark partnership between the UK and US will help millions of people across Africa get access to clean energy, UK International Development Minister Nick Hurd and Associate Administrator of USAID Eric Postel have announced. The new partnership between the UK’s Energy Africa campaign [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 December 2015 African community leaders in Chicago, USA, gathered last Sunday evening to support the Alie Kabba Campaign. Leaders from Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Senegal and several others gathered to honour Alie Kabba for his leadership and selfless devotion to the empowerment of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2015 Two weeks ago, there were newspaper reports in Freetown of an alleged leaked controversial campaign strategy, aimed at promoting Kandeh Yumkella’s presidential flagbearship for the opposition SLPP. Although a spokesman for the Kandeh Yumkella Movement had informed the Sierra Leone Telegraph that the allegations [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2015 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will build on the expiring Millennium Development Goals, which were launched in 2000 to end extreme poverty by 2015. What do the SDGs mean for African countries? Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2015 Nigerian born Amina Mohammed is the United Nations secretary-general’s former special adviser on post-2015 development planning. She was heavily involved in planning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new development agenda to be implemented over the next 15 years, and in getting UN member [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2015 Victor Mambu, son of the late Lord Mayor of Manchester, UK – Councillor Sarian Abayomi Mambu, sadly passed away in Manchester, UK, on the 12th of November 2015, after a short illness. He was aged 59. (Photo of Victor, taken few weeks before passing [Read More]
Africa Confidential (Source) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2015 Britain’s Standard Chartered Bank is caught in the middle of an increasingly bitter feud between the Sierra Leone government and the heavily-indebted Octéa Limited, owner of the country’s biggest diamond mine at Koidu. After tense and unsuccessful talks in London starting [Read More]
Jonathan Mahdi Kamara Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2015 The court case involving the proprietor of the citizen radio in Sierra Leone – Dr. David Tam-Baryoh, who is also the presenter of the good governance radio program popularly known as MONOLOGUE, and the country’s media monitoring institution – the Independent [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2015 After all the persistent harassment, intimidation and violation of civil liberty meted out to Dr. David Tam-Baryoh – the presenter of the popular Monologue radio programme in the last few years, tonight we bring you his explanation of events that led to the banning [Read More]
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