The Sierra Leone Telegraph

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]

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

March 25, 2026 0

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 1

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 0

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

March 16, 2026 0

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

March 16, 2026 0

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

March 16, 2026 0

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?

March 16, 2026 0

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 1

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]

Women’s right, justice, and national contradictions in Sierra Leone – Op ed

March 10, 2026 0

Alhaji Umar Modou N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2026: I love my country Sierra Leone so dearly and therefore enjoy all its contradictions. You declare a holiday to mark International Women’s Day and at the same time involved in silencing the voices of women. Voice and agency are fundamental [Read More]

The Africa Report unveils the 2026 ranking of the Top 500 African companies, marked by a historic performance

March 9, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 March 2026: The Africa Report publishes the 27th edition of its exclusive ranking of the 500 largest African companies (excluding the financial sector). This new edition highlights a historic performance: never before has the combined revenue of Africa’s leading companies reached such a level. With $782.8 [Read More]

Manifesto for a new Sierra Leone: All Peoples Alliance Movement (APAM)

March 9, 2026 0

Dr Alpha Grace Bangourah (PhD): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 March 2026: Sierra Leone stands at a defining moment. For generations, our land has carried immense wealth — rutile, diamonds, bauxite, gold, and now rare earth elements. Yet our people continue to face poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation, and limited opportunities. We [Read More]

Global youth environmental prize reopens to find the rising young voices in global conservation

March 9, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 March 2026 The Iris Prize, a global award supporting young environmental leaders with funding, expert mentorship and bespoke skills-building opportunities, has opened its applications for 2026. Now in its fifth year, the Prize (a key pillar of The Iris Project) exists to move resources, trust and [Read More]

Millions of people across the world celebrating Commonwealth Day

March 9, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 March 2026: Commonwealth Day is being celebrated across the world today, 9th of March 2026, with people taking part in cultural events, school activities and faith-based services in the 56 member countries. Observed annually on the second Monday in March since 1977, the day brings together [Read More]

Open letter to President Bio: The continued detention of Zainab Sheriff and the soul of our democracy

March 6, 2026 1

Lucy Baindu Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 March 2026: Your Excellency Julius Maada Bio, I write to you today not as a partisan voice, not as someone who endorses every word spoken at every rally, but as a Sierra Leonean woman who believes deeply in the promise of New Direction [Read More]

What Zainab Sheriff’s arrest reveals about being a woman in politics in Sierra Leone

March 2, 2026 0

Concerned Sierra Leonean: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2026: By any measure, Sierra Leone is a young democracy still struggling to reconcile its aspirations with its institutions. But on February 23, at Pademba Road Magistrate Court No. 1 in Freetown, the country sent a message that should trouble anyone who [Read More]

Freetown City Council presents awards to 2026 Urban Greening Competition winners

March 2, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2026: Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr last Wednesday presented certificates and prize cheques of NLe 10,000 each to the three winning teams for the Freetown Urban Greening Competition aimed at introducing more greenery into Freetown’s Central Business District. Team T&B’s (Murad Taqi & Nyakeh [Read More]

Times Higher Education and the Association of Commonwealth Universities announce strategic partnership

March 2, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2026: Times Higher Education (THE) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at supporting higher education institutions across the Commonwealth through trusted data, insight, and collaboration. The partnership brings together THE’s global data and higher education solutions with ACU’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone and the tragedy of the little stories

March 16, 2026 0

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

March 16, 2026 0

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