Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2015 Sierra Leone has the third worst healthcare in the whole of Africa, according to the latest Mo Ibrahim Governance Index Report, based on its study of all 52 countries in Africa in 2013, before the start of the Ebola crisis. Ranked 50 out of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2015 Sierra Leone’s presidential hopeful – Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella arrived back in Freetown yesterday evening, after a week-long engagement at the UN in New York and then attending the G20 Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. Speaking with the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2015 Most credible economists would tell you that government does not create sustainable employment opportunities, only the private sector can. They will further argue that the role of government is to create the necessary conditions that are conducive for private entrepreneurs to invest and create [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2015 The people of Sierra Leone, after sixteen long months of battling against the deadly Ebola virus, have once again started the countdown to being declared an Ebola free country. But this is not going to be easy. Although the last two known Ebola patients [Read More]
Messeh Leone Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2015 Disgracefully, Ernest Koroma’s first and worst mistake in delivering that speech at the UN, was to spend time praising other world leaders, whilst ignoring the efforts of his people fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone. He failed to start his speech with the [Read More]
President Koroma speaks at the UN Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2015 President Koroma has refused to accept responsibility on behalf of his government, for the destruction and loss of life caused by floods, after torrential rainfall, which his government had previously been warned could be devastating. Speaking at [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2015 Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has been appointed as one of the commissioners of the new Global Energy Transition Commission. (Photo: Yumkella winning the warm approbation of multibillionnaire Chief Elumelu). Kandeh is the only African to be appointed to the Commission, and joins an elite [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2015 When Sierra Leone’s President Ernest B. Koroma delivers his address on Tuesday at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), he will face a concerted protest by Concerned Sierra Leoneans USA (CSLUSA). In an invitation to Sierra Leoneans in [Read More]
Eddie Vandy Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2015 Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Czar – Mr. Joseph Kamara (Photo) has recently had his $11,200 monthly salaried contract renewed for another five years; and in his own words: to ‘continue the path to rid the country of corruption.’ But how effective is he, [Read More]
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