Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2020: Last Friday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio commissioned the country’s first fish processing plant at the Sierra Fishing Company in the east of the capital Freetown. Speaking at the event, the president said the plant will add value to fish produced in the country. [Read More]
Matilda Moyo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2020: Africa faces its worst economic recession in 25 years, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is estimated that the continent’s economy will contract by 2.6% at worst, pushing about 29 million people into extreme poverty and causing 19 million job losses, [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2020: Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki (Photo above) is the CEO of the African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD). He spoke to Africa Renewal’s Kingsley Ighobor on the African Union-United Nations partnership, COVID-19 response, Africa’s development and other issues. These [Read More]
UN Office for Disarmament Affairs: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2020: Seven African countries are currently completing efforts to collect illegally held weapons as part of a continent-wide annual amnesty period. (Photo: Weapons destruction in the Central African Republic during the September Africa Amnesty Month. Photo Credit: UNODA). This follows [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2020: For many Sierra Leoneans who had feared a change of government in 2018 may simply usher in more of the same corruption and poor governance, today’s publishing of the country’s Auditor General’s 2019 Report into the SLPP government’s management of public funds, confirms those [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph; 17 December 2020: Femi Claudius Cole is the founder of the Unity Party in Sierra Leone. In 2018, she ran for the office of President and remains the only female party leader in Sierra Leone. Madam Cole spoke yesterday live on Sierra Gem Media about the government’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2020: The Parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday, Wednesday 16th December 2020, debated and ratified the Lungi Freetown International Airport expansion project agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and the Russian owned Summa Airports (SL) Limited. The aim of the project is to expand Lungi [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today announced that it has received ONE BILLION LEONES (LE 1,000,000,000.00) from the Sierra Leone Cement Corporation (LEOCEM), “as settlement for issues relating to unmetered electricity abstraction from the National Grid of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA).” This [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2020: After our report yesterday about the safety of Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, who we now understand escaped police arrest yesterday afternoon and is now in safe refuge in an undisclosed location, the Sierra Leone Telegraph has tried to obtain a statement from the government [Read More]
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