Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2021: Financial Times and Seedstars announce the startup finalists advancing to the FTxSDG Challenge finale for a chance to win $500K in funding among other prizes. Winners will be announced through a live broadcast on December 17, 1PM CET. The FTxSDG Challenge was launched to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2021: The World Bank on Thursday approved $60 million grant financing to support maternal and child health services that will benefit two million people in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Quality Essential Health Services and Systems Support Project, funded by a $40 million International Development [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10th December 2021: As day one of Sierra Leone’s midterm census comes to an end – hailed by the government as a success, opposition political parties say the midterm census is an absolute waste of money and a misplaced priority by the government. Today, the Consortium of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 December 2021: Today, Friday 10 December 2021, President Dr Julius Maada Bio and his family were counted by census enumerators at their home in the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, Freetown as the controversial 2021 Mid-Term Population and Housing Census gets underway, amid calls from opposition parties [Read More]
Jarrah Kawusu-Konte & Sheriff Mahmoud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 December 2021: The second Kofi Annan Peace and Security Forum, organised by the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre kick-started on Wednesday 8th December in Accra, Ghana. The conference which is running on the theme: “Democracy and Good Governance in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 December 2021: Former President of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, has emphasized the need for ECOWAS to put a high premium on monitoring governance systems in Africa as they do in monitoring election processes. Koroma has been very active with the African Union and ECOWAS [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 December 2021: Yesterday, Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr spoke at the Summit for Democracy convened by the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden. Mayor Aki-Sawyerr was part of a high-level panel, discussing the topic – ‘Bolstering Democratic Resilience: Building Back Better from COVID-19’. The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 December 2021: On Tuesday, 7th December 2021, Mr. Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Africa West and Central Region, wrote a letter to Sierra Leone’s minister of finance – Denis Vandy and minister of economic development – Francis Kaikai, copied [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 December 2021: The spread of the latest COVID variant – Omicron – has proven that we are still far from the end of the pandemic. Though the variant’s origins are still unclear, it was first identified in South Africa but has since spread to various regions [Read More]
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