Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2023: The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report shows. In 2022, the global [Read More]
Setcheme Mongbo / Nadia Rasheed: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2023: We are living in an increasingly digital world that provides new and exciting opportunities for growth and development. And yet women around the world are disproportionately left behind when it comes to accessing and benefitting from these opportunities. This [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2023: Five years ago today, NGC gained four Parliamentary Seats at the 2018 general election, one District Chairman, and took control of Kambia District Council. The Party was attributed 6% of the total nationwide votes cast, by the National Electoral Commission, after massive [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: In Doha, Qatar, last Saturday 4 of March, President Dr Julius Maada Bio addressed a pre-summit gathering of the Fifth United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs. He spoke about the opportunities for member countries to engage and identify actions and partnerships at [Read More]
Alusine Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: In Sierra Leone, public-facing women – including women leaders, women human rights defenders, and women journalists – face an increased risk of threats, intimidation, online insult, and violence. According to a recently published report, these threats are often made in an attempt [Read More]
Stephen V. Lansana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2023: Orange Sierra Leone, the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG), Bintumani Hotel, Atlantic Hotel, and 12 other companies have breached the Sierra Leone Local Content Act 2016, the Director General of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) said on Wednesday. Fodeba Daboh told a news conference [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2023: Yesterday, President Bio commissioned a newly built passenger terminal at Freetown Lungi International Airport, where he spoke about his reasons for embarking on such an ambitious and costly project, which he said will be of massive economic benefit to Sierra Leone. But even before [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2023: Head of the Economic Community of West African States Elections Observer Mission (ECOWASEOM) to Nigeria – former Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, and the head of the African Union Elections Observer Mission (AUEOM), former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, yesterday held [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2023: Freetown’s most successful Mayor – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, yesterday said goodbye to staff at the Freetown City Council, after handing over the mayoral chains to the Council’s Chief Administrator – Festus Kallay, in accordance with an order handed down to all Mayors and Chairpersons of [Read More]
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