The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2026: Nine creators have been named winners across gaming, video and music at CANEX WKND 2026, following the live pitch finale of the CANEX Create-thon, powered by Gebeya. Held on 6 November at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Cultural and Creative Arts in Lagos, the [Read More]

CANEX create-thon, powered by Gebeya, announces nine winners at Afreximbank’s Creative Africa Nexus Weekend (CANEX WKND) 2026

East African Community (EAC) and development partners strengthen partnerships

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2026: The East African Community (EAC) and its Development Partners have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening cooperation, mobilising resources and aligning investments to accelerate implementation of the 7th EAC Development Strategy (2026/27–2030/31) and deliver tangible benefits to the people of East Africa. The commitment emerged [Read More]

China-West Africa investment and industrialization dialogue in Freetown

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2026: The China-West Africa Investment and Industrialization Dialogue was held in Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone, on November 13. Zhang Dianbin, Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, and Wang Peng, Counselor in charge of commercial and economic cooperation of the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone, attended the [Read More]

UNFPA supports MOPED and Statistics Sierra Leone with nationwide census public mobilization

George Komeh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2026: From 10–13 November, UNFPA Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (MoPED), supported Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) to conduct regional engagements in Bo, Makeni, Port Loko and Waterloo to strengthen public awareness and community mobilisation ahead of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone – When the law forgets the people – op ed

Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2026: A country may have a Constitution, a Parliament that makes laws, courts that deliver judgments and a government that exercises authority, yet its people may still wonder whether the law belongs to them. The institutions remain, their officials perform their duties, [Read More]

Power, sycophancy and the price of truth in Sierra Leone

Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2026: There is something revealing about the applause that surrounds political power. It grows louder when a leader assumes office, becomes almost deafening when appointments and favours are being distributed, and begins to fade as the occupant approaches the exit. Yet we [Read More]

Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) to import 1,000 transformers to ease power outages

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2026: The state minister for Energy, Sidronius Okaasai has revealed that Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) will import up to 1000 transformers in a move he says will improve electricity transmission. The minister said that the original plan to support the Buy Uganda Build [Read More]

The regime change boomerang: How Trump’s war on Tehran toppled Washington instead – Op ed

Dr Mohamed Dawo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2026: When the United States and Israel launched a massive joint attack on Iran on February 28, 2026, the architects of the campaign envisioned a swift, decisive triumph, Operation Epic Fury and Israel’s were designed around a clear premise: decapitate the Islamic [Read More]

Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States – European Union Assembly call for redefined global partnerships

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2026: Parliamentarians from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific regions gathered in Brussels, Belgium have highlighted the critical need to strengthen multilateralism in an era of global strain. This call was made at the opening session of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific [Read More]

Sierra Leone and Kenya sign Statements of Intent with The Akuna Group to advance Commonwealth Creative Economy Partnership

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2026: Sierra Leone and Kenya signed Statements of Intent with The Akuna Group at CHOGM 2026, becoming founding champions of the Commonwealth Creative Economy Partnership. The voluntary, country-led initiative seeks to connect talent with skills, investment, enterprise and markets across the Commonwealth and beyond. At [Read More]

CHOGM 2026 opens with drive to unlock prosperity for Commonwealth’s 2.7 billion people

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2026: The 2026 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) opened in Antigua and Barbuda Tuesday, 3rd of November 2026, with a drive for bold partnerships between governments and businesses to unlock prosperity for the Commonwealth’s 2.7 billion people. His Majesty King Charles III, Head of [Read More]

Sierra Leone project wins public vote at the OceanLove Innovation Awards 2026

November 5, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2026: The third edition of the OceanLove Innovation Awards Ceremony took place on 11 October 2026 at AltaSea, Port of Los Angeles, California. It was an afternoon by the ocean, open to all ages, where the winners across the three award categories — The Blue [Read More]

Sierra Ride – Driving opportunity and a greener future

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2026: Through Government Development Financing, Sierra Leone is investing its own resources, with UNDP support, in electric vehicles, charging infrastructure and driver training, to create opportunities for young people, including women. What does it mean for people when countries invest in their own development? For [Read More]

Government of Sierra Leone’s Advanced Spectrum Monitoring System may violate privacy rights and carry risks that outweigh technical merits

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The new Spectrum Monitoring System is being marketed as a technical fix. Cleaner airwaves, better call quality, and less interference. Agreed, these are laudable objectives. But a mobile spectrum monitor is also a direction finder. It can locate transmitters, and, [Read More]

Accra welcomes the second of the Creating Opportunities for Youth and Women in Africa (COYWA) Programme

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its partners, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), last week organised the second regional training session of the Creating Opportunities for Youth and Women in Africa [Read More]

ECOWAS launches national platforms for the ECOWAS Cross Border Cooperation Support Programme

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The ECOWAS Commission, through its Directorate of Free Movement of Persons, Migration and Tourism, held a meeting in Conakry, Guinea, on 22 October 2026 to launch the National Platform for the ECOWAS Regional Cross-Border Cooperation Support Programme (ECBCSP). The Programme is a multisectoral initiative [Read More]

Ministers outline roadmap to accelerate delivery of global biodiversity targets at COP17

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: Ministers from six countries have called for urgent action to transform food systems to help close the global biodiversity implementation gap, as governments at COP17 confront slow progress towards their 2030 nature targets. With more than half of the 23 global biodiversity targets dependent [Read More]

UNDP launches training to help Sierra Leonean innovators scale solutions to plastic pollution

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched a three-day training to support 20 Sierra Leonean innovators selected under the Global Plastics Innovation Programme (GPIP) to transform their ideas for addressing plastic pollution into scalable businesses that create jobs, strengthen communities and drive sustainable development. [Read More]

Africa Young Innovators for Health Award seeks Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to expand access to family planning

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: Speak Up Africa and the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (OPCU) have opened applications for the third edition of the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award. This edition invites young Africans to propose solutions that use artificial intelligence effectively and responsibly to improve access to [Read More]

MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2026 investment track to spotlight new capital opportunities

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2026 conference and exhibition, taking place from December 1–3 in Dakar, will introduce a dedicated Investment Track designed to deepen capital engagement across West Africa’s energy landscape. Building on the region’s expanding upstream activity, infrastructure development and cross-border [Read More]

ECOWAS strengthens the harmonization of monetary and financial statistics to support regional economic integration

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Commission and in collaboration with the West African Monetary Agency (WAMA), opened the meeting of the Committee of Experts on the Harmonization of Monetary and Financial Statistics yesterday, Monday in Lomé. Scheduled for November [Read More]

The regime change boomerang: How Trump’s war on Tehran toppled Washington instead – Op ed

Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific States – European Union Assembly call for redefined global partnerships