Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday at Presidential Lodge in Freetown, received the 16th Official Queen’s Baton Relay ahead of next year’s Commonwealth Games which will take place in Birmingham, England. The baton’s 90,000-mile, 269-days journey will travel through all 72 Commonwealth nations and territories, [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2021: President Bio recently attended EXPO Dubai 2020, during which he urged all Sierra Leoneans living in Dubai to continue to be patriotic. The government saw the EXPO Dubai 2020 as an opportunity to showcase the best that Sierra Leone has to offer. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2021: One of the most dangerous issues in Sierra Leone today is the right of private landowners to repossess their land and property that have been illegally occupied or encroached upon by squatters. In Sierra Leone, the cost of bringing court action to repossess land [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2021 Sierra Leone’s year-on-year inflation stood at 11.63% in September, up from 10.88% in August, according to a press release published on Wednesday by Statistics Sierra Leone. The prices of alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotic (3.97%), housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (0.05%), furniture, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2021: The British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone Lisa Chesney this week visited the country’s chief electoral commissioner – Mohamed Konneh to discuss plans and processes for the staging of local, parliamentary, and presidential elections in 2022 and 2023. Writing on twitter after their meeting, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2021: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today a commitment of up to $120 million to accelerate access to the investigational antiviral drug molnupiravir for lower-income countries as part of its COVID-19 response effort. The funding will be allocated based on consultations with partners, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Judiciary Comms Unit: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2021: The World Justice Project Rule of Law 2021 Index has rated the Judiciary of Sierra Leone high ahead of thirty-one (31) countries in the world during their global assessment amidst the COVID19 outbreak. In a year dominated by the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2021: A group of political parties representing almost all of the opposition parties in Sierra Leone, known as the Consortium of Progressive Political Parties (COPPP), last Thursday 14th October, published a statement questioning the independence and impartiality of the country’s electoral commission as condemnation grows, [Read More]
Augustine Sorie-Sengbe Marrah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2021: I am not saying that that we should trash politics from our governance. I am saying the deep-seated divisive partisan politics in our nation is our biggest problem. A few months ago, our law firm tried to hire an administrative secretary. [Read More]
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