From our correspondent Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 July 2015 Like the calm after a storm, the recent official launching of the SLPP Manchester Chapter on 13 June 2015 was quite a sobering and resounding success. Just as if many of the guests who attended were there either out of sheer [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2015 Liberia’s dream of finally walking away from the deadly Ebola virus into a ray of hope of economic recovery was shattered yesterday, after a 17 year old man was confirmed to have died of the virus. Last month Liberia was declared Ebola free [Read More]
Julius Maada Bio (Former Head of State – Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 June 2015 Last year – the news from home was bleak and it broke my heart daily. I doubt there is a person in this room who has not been touched by the tragedy of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2015 The Ebola epidemic in West Africa which has taken the life of over 11,000 people in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, may have significantly receded, especially with Liberia being declared Ebola free, but Sierra Leone and Guinea continue to record new cases of the [Read More]
Baimba Sesay – Beijing China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2015 After few days of anxiety and speculations, Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh (Photo), Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China was announced and sworn-in as the country’s new Vice President on 19th March 2015. The jubilation that greeted [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2015 In response to what many in Sierra Leone regard as an unfair attack on the integrity of a senior Judge in Freetown by one of the country’s newspapers – Awareness Times, the Bar Association has strongly condemned what it calls a publication that [Read More]
Alan Luke Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2015 This is a very interesting piece, and it highlights the fact that our leaders have no genuine commitment to our advancement and development as a nation. (Photo: Koroma arriving in Brussels in March 2015). Koroma and his ruling elites travel overseas not [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2015 Last week president Koroma of Sierra Leone reminded the world, of the lavish lifestyles lived by former and contemporary African corrupt dictators, such as the late president Mobutu of Zaire and several others, whose expensive habits included health tourism abroad. Speaking to local [Read More]
Franck Kuwonu Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2015 Sanusi Lamido (Photo), a former governor of the central bank of Nigeria, once railed against his country for spending “huge resources importing consumer goods from China that should be produced locally.” Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy and most populous country, is also the [Read More]
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