Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone telegraph: 13 November 2022: America conducted its Midterm elections on Tuesday, which traditionally takes place two years after a Presidential election. In effect, midterm elections are America’s referendum on their sitting presidents, halfway through their four- year terms. Joe Biden was slated as the least popular [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Akinwumi Adesina has a nuanced view of what a just transition to renewable energy means for Africa. He believes it should be pragmatic and sensitive to Africa’s development reality but not antithetical to the [Read More]
Jean-Paul Adam: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: Environmental activists carrying placards protest calling for action on climate change, in Nairobi on September 20, 2019 (Photo above). We are all hoping that Africa’s COP can be a pivotal moment in bringing certainty on climate action. But can the climate emergency [Read More]
Andrew Mold: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: The climate talks (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt this November come at a time when momentum on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is picking up with the recent launch of the guided trade initiative – an initial pilot of eight African countries [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: Ugandan youth climate activist Leah Namugerwa (Photo above) speaks during the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit (SCIS) of the UNFCCC COP27 climate conference on November 07, 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Scores of young African climate activists have arrived in Sharm [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2022: Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyer has returned to Sierra Leone following her attendance at COP27, where she represented Freetown and Sierra Leone on the World Stage. Her presence at COP27 was significant, given President Bio’s absence at this major world summit, which is focused [Read More]
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2022: Two days ago, we marked the Seventh Anniversary of the Declaration of the End of the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone. We lost 3956 of our brothers and sisters, in some instances whole families and villages were wiped out. Today [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2022: Since its launch at COP26, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) has accelerated clean energy solutions to support economic development and climate priorities across 12 countries on multiple continents, with plans to expand to seven more countries next year. Highlights of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2022: World leaders are in Egypt attending COP27 – the global summit on climate change, which many believe will set the new agenda and provide renewed impetus for nations to cut carbon emissions and effectively manage the impact of climate change. As developing countries such [Read More]
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