The Sierra Leone Telegraph

African Union Leaders issue joint Africa Day call for unity, reform, and a renewed commitment to Agenda 2063

May 30, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: On the occasion of Africa Day 2026, Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), and Mr. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi and the Chairperson of the African Union, have issued a united call for accelerated integration, global [Read More]

African Union Leaders issue joint Africa Day call for unity, reform, and a renewed commitment to Agenda 2063

May 30, 2026 0

African development finance institutions unite in support of Mission 300

May 30, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: Senior African finance leaders attending the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Annual Meetings in Brazzaville have called for coordinated action to unlock an estimated $250 billion in assets held by the continent’s development finance institutions to support Mission 300), a joint initiative by the [Read More]

Angola rewrites the rules for oil investment – Other African producers must take notes

May 30, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: Angola’s oil sector has demonstrated how reform can transform a market on the cusp of rapid decline into an industry capable of attracting billions of dollars in investment. NJ Ayuk’s latest book titled Crude Oil: Power, Turnaround, and Transformation in Angola explores this transition, [Read More]

AfDB Group’s 2025 annual report highlights strong results and a new chapter for Africa’s transformation

May 30, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has released its 2025 Annual Report, showcasing another year of strong development results and reaffirming its commitment to advancing a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and integrated Africa. Despite a challenging global environment marked by slower growth, tighter financial conditions, [Read More]

Pandemic of fear in Sierra Leone: When citizens learn to whisper

May 26, 2026 1

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Some pandemics don’t strike the body—they slash the tongue. They spread through prosecutions and public warnings, and through the quiet calculations people make before speaking. Sierra Leone is living through that contagion: a pandemic of fear, marked by lowered voices, deleted [Read More]

South Africa’s xenophobia: A failed state of the soul

May 26, 2026 0

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Many of you have likely seen the video—women stripped bare in the street, their bodies turned into public property, their pain turned into public entertainment. It is a violence so obscene it seems to knock the breath out of language itself. [Read More]

How Sierra Leone’s ports and security institutions become entangled in Europe’s biggest narco-trafficking scandal

May 26, 2026 0

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: For years, Sierra Leone’s authorities dismissed allegations that the country was becoming a strategic transit hub for global cocaine syndicates. Every major seizure linked to Freetown was met with the same institutional reflex: denial, deflection, and carefully worded press statements. But [Read More]

UK Lawmaker urges investigation after Sierra Leone’s First Lady admits continued use of London’s subsidized housing

May 24, 2026 0

Josef Skrdlik / Oliver Dunn (OCCRP): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2026: Wife of Sierra Leone’s President – Fatima Bio is again under fire as she holds onto her subsidized flat more than a year after OCCRP and The Times exposed her tenancy at the property. A British lawmaker has [Read More]

Malawian nationals held in forced labour operations in Myanmar

May 24, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2026: The Human Rights Association (HRA) today calls on the authorities of Myanmar to dismantle without delay the network of online scam compounds operating within its territory in which Malawian nationals are being held against their will, subjected to forced labour, torture, and physical coercion, [Read More]

Gates Foundation announces $15 million Ebola response funding

May 24, 2026 0

Gates Foundation: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2026: We are deeply concerned by the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak affecting communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, the communities facing uncertainty, and the frontline health workers, laboratory teams, responders, [Read More]

Africa pushes for data sovereignty and digital Independence

May 19, 2026 0

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2026: African leaders are sharpening their focus on digital sovereignty, warning that the continent’s economic future will depend not just on connectivity, but on who controls its data—and where it is stored. At a high-level roundtable during the 58th [Read More]

Africa Finance Corporation US$100 Million to accelerate Africa’s Digital Industrialisation

May 19, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2026: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that its Board has approved a commitment of up to US$100 million to invest in Africa-focused technology fund managers. The launch comes at a pivotal moment for Africa. The continent’s digital economy [Read More]

Ubuntuverse Institute launches field-defining playbook to unlock Africa’s $3 Trillion green industrial opportunity

May 19, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2026: The Ubuntuverse Institute has released The 3 Trillion Corporate Advocacy PlayBook: Africa’s 10× CAMPs Accelerating Just Clean Energy’s Green Industrialisation, a field-defining framework charting how corporate actors can unlock the continent’s $3 trillion clean energy opportunity. Drawing on evidence from the IEA, IRENA, the [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s President Bio in another vanity trip to London

May 18, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2026: While Many in Sierra Leone are struggling to put food on their table and cope with the daily grind of electricity power cuts that is crippling the nation’s hospitals and small businesses, President Julius Maada Bio has once again arrived in London, this time [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s president Bio’s frequent overseas travels – a waste of public funds

May 18, 2026 0

Yankuba Gbassa Kai-Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2026: Given the unprecedented frequency of President Bio’s overseas trips to attend meetings, there is significant public concern that public funds are being wasted. Critics accuse him of seeking validation abroad while failing to deliver for the people at home. Why not [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s Auditor General’s Report – A nation’s tragic mirror

May 18, 2026 0

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2026: The numbers are staggering. (Photo above: President Julius Maada Bio). The silence is deafening. The 2024 Auditor General’s report being the latest release, does not merely point out errors, it reflects a national tragedy. According to the findings, over 243.9 million [Read More]

Bolle Jos presence in Sierra Leone has generated enormous international embarrassment and concern – says parliamentary opposition leader

May 16, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2026: Sunday, 10th May 2026. Your Excellency President Julius Maada Bio President of the Republic of Sierra Leone State House, Freetown. Dear Mr. President, AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT JULIUS MAADA BIO ON THE GROWING INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING LINKS TO SIERRA LEONE As [Read More]

FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund awards grants to first group of community-based organizations

May 13, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2026: Global Citizen and FIFA today announced the first round of grant recipients from the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund. 27 grassroots organizations from 10 countries around the world have been selected to receive awards ranging from USD $50,000–$250,000 to further their vital work providing [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister’s Leicester delegation and the visa question nobody is answering

May 13, 2026 0

Mohammed Kroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2026: On 12 May 2026, the British High Commission in Freetown issued a public statement distancing itself from a report in Sierra Leone’s Global Times newspaper. The report had alleged that unnamed UK diplomats warned that visa applications from twenty-three Sierra Leoneans — [Read More]

ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development strengthens commitment to private sector

May 13, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2026: As part of its GRO Strategy, the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) is strengthening its commitment to private sector and SME financing, key drivers of economic growth in West Africa. In this context, EBID is organising a high-level webinar on: “Navigating a [Read More]

African Mining Week 2026 to spotlight domestic funding avenues as Sovereign Wealth Funds hit $164 Billion

May 12, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2026: Africa’s sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are increasingly being positioned as active financiers of the continent’s mining sector and a vital tool for unlocking its over $8.5 trillion in untapped mineral resources. With combined assets now exceeding $164 billion, SWFs are emerging as a potential [Read More]

UK Lawmaker urges investigation after Sierra Leone’s First Lady admits continued use of London’s subsidized housing

May 24, 2026 0

Malawian nationals held in forced labour operations in Myanmar

May 24, 2026 0

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