Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2024: One of the Transform Freetown Sanitation targets is “to ensure that at least 60% of solid and liquid waste is safely collected, managed and disposed of”. In order to address the liquid waste element of that target, with funding from FCDO and with GOAL [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2024: Following a successful pilot programme, today the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccines are being administered through routine immunisation programmes across Africa, beginning with Cameroon. Vaccinations are taking place across 42 health districts, chosen in order to give the most vulnerable children with the highest [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2024: The United States Embassy in Sierra Leone yesterday confirmed in a statement that Linda Thomas Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations will be visiting Sierra Leone this week, after fake social media report went viral last week claiming that U.S. Secretary of States [Read More]
FCC Comms: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2024: Freetown City Council won the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Mayors Challenge in 2021 along with 14 other cities. Our winning proposal was the development of a sustainability model for #FreetownTheTreeTown that includes a carbon offset investment platform linked to our digital tree database. [Read More]
Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2024: In January 2022, President Julius Maada Bio’s announcement of the Baimba Moiforay (LAC) Clemency revocation ignited a debate about the justice system and processes involved in granting clemency in Sierra Leone. However, two years later, the public remains in the dark, prompting [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2024: Former President of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, yesterday afternoon arrived in Abuja, Nigeria on board a plane belonging to the Nigerian president Bola Tinubu, after a month’s standoff between the government of Sierra Leone and ECOWAS, who had demanded the relocation of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2024: President Bio has tonight addressed the people of Sierra Leone, calling for national unity and continuing dialogue towards peace and national cohesion. His address comes following the decision of the High Court yesterday to grant former President Koroma’s request to leave the country for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2024: The High Court in Freetown presided by Justice Taylor has granted bail to former President Koroma of Sierra Leone, who his doctors say needs medical treatment outside of the country. The 70-year-old former President will be travelling to Nigeria in the coming days. Koroma [Read More]
Foday Moriba Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2024: Social media is awash with audio messages from unknown persons calling on the people of Sierra Leone to stay at home today 17th January 2024, claiming that sections of the country’s military will be out on the streets protesting against the [Read More]
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