The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2026: As confidence and trust between the government of Sierra Leone and the country’s main opposition APC party continue to remain in short supply, the international community – including UK and Germany, have once again stepped in, calling on the Sierra Leone government and the [Read More]

International community including UK and Germany call on Sierra Leone government and opposition to implement eight-point peace and unity agreement

Amid global shipping volatility, Milano by Danube to unveil “Global Direct” model for African partners

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2026: As shipping disruption continues to pressure delivery timelines, freight costs and supply continuity, Milano by Danube will unveil its Global Direct model at this year’s Canton Fair. Designed to reduce reliance on disrupted transit routes, the new fulfilment approach is aimed at supporting Milano [Read More]

Kenya and France pave the way for future-oriented partnerships for innovation and growth ahead of the Africa Forward Summit 2026

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2026: Kenya and France have signalled a new wave of high-impact strategic partnerships across Africa, as preparations intensify for the Africa Forward Summit (AFS) 2026, following a high-level engagement with the Kenya Editors Guild. In a decisive shift from dialogue to delivery, the Summit is [Read More]

Opposition APC elected politicians return to parliament and councils after boycott

April 22, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2026: After almost two months political standoff between the government of Sierra Leone and the country’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party, it seems there is light at the tunnel as the party’s elected members of parliament, local councillors and mayors end their boycott [Read More]

Justice and civil liberty murdered by President Bio of Sierra Leone

April 15, 2026 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: Justice and civil liberty were murdered in Sierra Leone yesterday by a brutal president, who is known for committing some of the worst atrocities against his own people – especially political opponents, after Zainab Sheriff – a young female political activist was sentenced to [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC holds talks with international community as country faces chaos

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Party held a high-level meeting with the international community yesterday in Freetown, where they expressed strong concerns about the government’s poor and dishonest implementation of the Agreement for National Unity (ANU) and the recommendations of the [Read More]

Sierra Leoneans must ask the hard questions – Op ed

Olangba Albert Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: As Sierra Leone seeks to expand its security architecture, the real test is whether it strengthens democracy or concentrates power and how it shapes public trust ahead of the 2028 elections. Citizens must critically examine the growing push for expanded security [Read More]

Sierra Leone: The silence we were taught and the leaders it created – Op ed

Grace Yei Moore-Sourie: Siera Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: There is a hard truth many of us are not ready to face, which is… The same silence we were forced to learn as children is the same silence destroying us as a nation today. Because the more you look at [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP threatens to replace the capital’s elected Mayor Aki-Sawyerr

March 25, 2026 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2026: One of the most serious misgivings expressed by opponents of President Julius Maada Bio’s entry into politics as a retired head of a brutal military junta, was the risk of him not respecting or suspending constitutional order, as he pleases. And since coming to [Read More]

Global education progress masks deepening gaps in sub-Saharan Africa, says UNESCO 2026 Global Monitoring Education Report

March 25, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2026: Over the past 25 years, participation in early childhood education (Pre-primary schooling) has increased worldwide. The fastest progress occurred in the three regions and subregions that had the lowest starting levels: Northern Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and Western Asia. Each of them grew by 1.1 [Read More]

Sierra Leone – Empty seats, silent councils and the price citizens are paying – Op ed

March 25, 2026 0

Layemin Joe Sandi (JP: Siera Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2026: My interest in the current situation affecting local councils in Sierra Leone was drawn from a social media post issued by the National PRO of my party, the SLPP, and further reinforced by discussions on the Morning Coffee Programme I [Read More]

ECOWAS Commission President meets with the African Union Commission’s Commissioner for Infrastructure

March 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2026: The visit paid on Wednesday 18 March 2026 in Abuja, Nigeria, by the Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalisation of the African Union Commission, Ms Lerato Mataboge, to the President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Dr Omar Alieu Touray, [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s former chief minister – David Francis’s “governing a poor country”- mea culpa or ex culpa?

March 23, 2026 2

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2026: A book by the first Chief Minister in the post-colonial era on governing Sierra Leone should be essential reading for governance experts. In expatiating his views and experience in the Office of Chief Minister, Professor David Francis’s in his book GOVERNING A [Read More]

Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr celebrates Eid with Muslims across the country

March 20, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2026: Today Friday 20th March 2026, marks the end of thirty days of fasting for Muslims all over the world, with prayers and celebrations. And in the capital of Sierra Leone – Freetown, where today has been declared a public holiday, the capital’s Mayor Yvonne [Read More]

Sierra Leone Politics – Is a gentleman’s agreement with a government legally binding? – Op ed

March 17, 2026 1

Mira Dumbuya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2026: I have read and heard several views about the Tripartite Agreement not being legally binding, with some even describing it as “A Gentleman’s Agreement.” That description alone raises an important question: What does it really mean when a government enters into a gentleman’s [Read More]

Coalition of ministers, educators, developers, and researchers unites to end fragmentation and deliver the AUDA-NEPAD EdTech Vision 2030 for 200 million African learners

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: Mwanga wa Elimu has announced the 12 leaders who make up its founding cohort of Luminaries. Drawn from the African continent, the group comprises government ministries, regional education bodies, technology developers, research organisations, and educators. Together, they form the founding coalition of the movement [Read More]

Sierra Leone and the tragedy of the little stories

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: In Sierra Leone, public service often ends the way it begins – with a story. Not a balance sheet. Not a report card. A story – told after the fact, polished by memory, and usually centred on one brave figure who [Read More]

Sierra Leone – The unfinished business of the Agreement for National Unity

Olangba Albert Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: Concerns about the conduct of Sierra Leone’s 2023 elections have been widely discussed both locally and internationally. Several election observer missions and independent stakeholders pointed to shortcomings in the transparency of the process and raised questions about aspects of the management [Read More]

Sierra Leone – Protocols without action: who now collects the dead on the streets?

John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: There was a time not long ago when the streets of Freetown began revealing a disturbing and heartbreaking trend: an alarming number of corpses were being found in public spaces. For any city, such a development is both a humanitarian crisis [Read More]

Sierra Leone has lost a legal luminary – Berthan Macaulay

March 12, 2026 2

SierraEye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2026: Berthan Macaulay Jnr, Barrister who became the conscience of Sierra Leone’s legal profession and the quiet guardian of its rule of law, has died aged 73. He the pre-eminent private practitioner at the Sierra Leone Bar for more than half a century, a [Read More]

Ethnic architecture, constitutional scars, and Sierra Leone’s blueprint of failure

March 10, 2026 0

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2026: In Sierra Leone, national troubles rarely make the headlines. They arrive as errands. A mother plans her morning around whether the tap will run. A student studies by phone torchlight, rationing battery life and hope. A trader budgets for the “extra” [Read More]

Sierra Leone: The silence we were taught and the leaders it created – Op ed