Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 December 2015 African Minerals Ltd., Sierra Leone’s largest mining company is in hot water again. Owned by the Chinese and regarded by the government as its crown jewel, the company is under tremendous pressure as iron ore production and export sales struggle to recover. The last [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2015 The debate as to whether Sierra Leone needs a second international airport, amidst growing poverty and lack of investment in public services and infrastructure, such as health, education, access to clean water and electricity, low-cost housing, and safe trunk roads, has intensified in the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2015 The people of Bo in the southern province of Sierra Leone and political heartland of the country’s main opposition Sierra Leone People’s party (SLPP), came out in their thousands yesterday, Friday, to welcome presidential aspirant – Kandeh Yumkella. Until yesterday, the head of the [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2015 With the recent Global Entrepreneurship Index showing Sierra Leone to be almost at the bottom of the table, there is need now to start paying serious attention to this problem. But it must be done as part of a concerted and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2015: If the Koroma government had properly managed the Ebola funds grant-aided to the people of Sierra Leone last year, of which $14 million was stolen, it would not have been necessary for the government to significantly increase its borrowing requirement in order to address [Read More]
Nyamacoro Silla Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 November 2015 Over the last month or so, there have been several discussions on the proposed Mamamah airport project, which has been brought to the public’s attention. (Photo: Lungi airport president Koroma no longer wants). The Mamamah airport project is one that the government [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 November 2015 An orchestra conductor does not face the crowd. President Koroma’s insistence on doing just that and dishing out meaningless platitudes, rather than leading the country in getting our national priorities right, is to my mind, the blot on his determined bid [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2015 Since the declaration of Sierra Leone as Ebola free two weeks ago, there has been a flurry of activity from the Koroma government – egged on by the IMF and the World Bank, to kick-start an ailing economy. Sierra Leone’s economy is seriously ill [Read More]
Ambassador Alhaji Umaru Bundu Wurie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 November 2015 I am Ambassador Umaru Bundu Wurie (Photo), affectionately and widely known as “Bond Wurie”. I grew up in a working class family in Gbinti, a small town in the Dibia Chiefdom of Port Loko District in northern Sierra Leone. [Read More]
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