The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 April 2025: In a significant development for Africa’s energy sector, Nigeria, Angola and Ghana have fulfilled their capital commitments toward establishing the Africa Energy Bank (AEB). This milestone represents 44% of the minimum required funding from African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) members to initiate the bank’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s Kono District: You can’t sit by the river and wash your hands with spittle – Op ed

Abdulai Mansaray: Siera Leone Telegraph: 02 April 2025: When wife of the president of Sierra Leone – Mrs Fatima Bio joined a strike action by workers from Koidu Limited Mining Company (KLMC) in protest against the company, her detractors wasted no time in condemning her action, as attention seeking or [Read More]

Freetown City Council shares milestones in expanding access to clean, reliable water supply

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FCC: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2025: The Freetown City Council (FCC) is pleased to share the progress it has made in expanding access to safe and reliable water for thousands of residents across the city. Over the past six years, FCC has led sustainable, inclusive, and community-focused water initiatives [Read More]

African Union and European Union celebrate 25 years of strengthened partnership

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2025: The African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) launched a year-long celebration marking the 25th anniversary of their enduring and unique partnership, since the first Africa-Europe Summit on 3-4 April 2000 in Cairo. This milestone, aligned with the Africa Agenda 2063 and the [Read More]

Africa Energy Bank gains momentum with capital contributions from Nigeria, Angola and Ghana

Sierra Leone’s Kono District: You can’t sit by the river and wash your hands with spittle – Op ed

Freetown City Council shares milestones in expanding access to clean, reliable water supply

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African Union and European Union celebrate 25 years of strengthened partnership

US Ambassador confirms high visa refusal rates for Sierra Leoneans

Murtala Mohamed Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2025: The US Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Bryan D Hunt, has stated that the United States Government has serious concerns about Sierra Leoneans misusing their visas when they travel to the United States. Ambassador Hunt explained, “15% of Sierra Leoneans who travel [Read More]

Africa is proud of Tom Adeyoola’s selection as preferred candidate to head up Innovate UK

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2025: Tech entrepreneur and business leader Tom Adeyoola who is of Nigerian descent, will head up Innovate UK to unlock the potential of British business and turbocharge growth through the British government’s Plan for Change. Once confirmed by parliament, Tom will act as Chair of [Read More]

ECA to mobilize Ethiopian, Ghanaian, Kenyan and Zimbabwean cities to join Quality of Life Initiative

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2025: This year, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is set to mobilize stakeholders in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe to improve urban living conditions through UN-Habitat’s Quality of Life Initiative. As African cities grow rapidly, ensuring that urbanization leads to better living [Read More]

The gift of water: How the Lesotho rural water supply and sanitation project is transforming lives

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: “Water is life; when there is no water, it is as if there are no people living.” These profound words from ‘Masechefo Sechefo, a Community Councilor at Ha Sekete village, capture the essence of existence in rural Lesotho before the African Development Bank’s transformative [Read More]

Liberia launches E-Visa on arrival

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: In a significant step towards modernizing its tourism sector, Liberia has unveiled its new electronic Visa on Arrival (e-Visa) system, effective March 11, 2025. This digital initiative, spearheaded by the Liberia Immigration Service (LIS), promises to simplify and expedite the visa application process for [Read More]

Ghana and UK strengthen economic ties

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: Ghana’s Minister for Finance, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has reaffirmed Ghana’s commitment to deepening economic cooperation with the United Kingdom, following a high-level meeting with the UK Trade Envoy to Ghana, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, and Akosua Dentaa Amoateng MBE. During the discussions, Dr. Ato Forson [Read More]

AfDB Group approves €330 million loan to upgrade Cameroon’s road to strengthen regional integration

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: The African Development Bank Group has given the green light to a loan of €330.48 million to Cameroon to redevelop and widen a key section of the Douala-Ndjamena economic corridor, a vital part of plans promoting strengthened regional integration. The financing agreement for the [Read More]

ECOWAS commits to attracting 10 million intra-community tourists by 2029

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has successfully concluded a five-day high-level regional training workshop on responsible tourism and the free movement of persons, held in Banjul, The Gambia. This strategic event represented a significant milestone in the implementation of the ECOTOUR [Read More]

Economy & Business

Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development to focus on driving jobs and economic growth

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: The Eleventh Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-11) is set to take place in Kampala, Uganda, from April 9 to April 11, 2025, preceded by pre-events, such as the Africa Regional Science, Technology and Innovation Forum. This multi-stakeholder forum will [Read More]

African Energy Week 2025 to strengthen public-private partnerships in Africa’s energy market

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: This year’s African Energy Week (AEW): Invest in African Energies conference taking place in Cape Town, South Africa, will debut the first-ever National Oil Company (NOC) and International Oil Company (IOC) Forum, a dynamic platform that brings key public and private sector stakeholders into [Read More]

Is Sierra Leone’s opposition APC ready for Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr as its 2028 presidential candidate? Op ed

Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2025: As the All People’s Congress (APC) prepares for the 2028 elections in Sierra Leone, several contenders for the presidential flagbearership are stepping forward ahead of the party’s 2026 national convention. The recent resignation of Osman Abdul Timbo MP as Deputy National Secretary [Read More]

Brexit: Was this Britain’s gravest episode of national self-harm?

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: On Friday, at 11:00 PM, 31 January 2020, Britain officially left the European Union (EU). It was a divorce that was not contested by either party and was settled on a no fault claim basis. Although the bride Britain had some legal [Read More]

Tripartite Nation: An Excerpt from “Monopoly of Happiness – Unveiling Sierra Leone’s Social Imbalance”

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: Sierra Leoneans are not happy, and they will never be happy as long as we continue to have the kind of politicians we do as our leaders. We are living in a tripartite nation, one that is divided into three distinct [Read More]

Cameroon’s political octogenarians strangling the nation – Op ed

Valentine Nzeng: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: Cameroon’s political system has become a shameful cycle of stagnation, corruption, and power entrenchment, with 91-year-old Niat Njifenji Marcel and 85-year-old Cavaye Yeguie Djibril once again reappointed to lead the Senate and National Assembly. Adding to this political stranglehold, 92-year-old Paul Biya, [Read More]

Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr among 33 extraordinary changemakers creating a better future for the planet

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and Eugenia Kargbo – Africa’s First Chief Heat Officer in Sierra Leone, have been recognised by the National Geographic among 33 extraordinary individuals across the world whose visionary ideas and relentless efforts are making a global impact. (Photo above: Freetown [Read More]

The world’s happiest nations – Sierra Leone is not among them according to World Happiness Report

Bob Massally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: Watching BBC News few days ago and reading both its website as well as those of the UK’s Fleet Street newspapers, journalists were moaning the fact that the UK and the US have just had their worst rating ever in the respected [Read More]

Demand for training and learning for African member states exceeds expectations

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: The African Institute for Development and Economic Planning, the ECA’s training arm, provided training for 5,000 people in 34 courses in 2024 – more than the 3,000 it initially planned to, said its director, Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane. She said programmes were being designed [Read More]

The gift of water: How the Lesotho rural water supply and sanitation project is transforming lives