Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2024: African governments should accelerate plans to guarantee free quality education from preschool through secondary education before 2030, Human Rights Watch said, marking the African Union (AU)’s Day of the African Child two days ago. Africa is the region with the world’s highest out-of-school population. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2024: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance today announced that the lower-income countries it supports can now apply to introduce four additional vaccines: preventive Ebola, human rabies vaccine for post-exposure prophylaxis, multivalent meningococcal conjugate and hepatitis B birth dose. These four vaccine programmes were previously approved by [Read More]
Siera Leone Telegraph: 25 May 2024: The Global Schools Forum—alongside the IDP Foundation, Jacobs Foundation, and Vitol Foundation—hosted a side event this week (21 May, 2024) where a number of African education ministers committed to investing more time, money, and energy into working with non-state actors in education to achieve [Read More]
Abdul-Rahman Edward Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 May 2024: Dozens and dozens. That’s how many stairs you have to climb up a grand spiral staircase inside State House in Freetown, if you wish to reach the office of President Retired Brigadier Dr. Julius Maada Bio and his advisors, for a [Read More]
Mackie M Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2024: In the heart of Sierra Leone, April has dawned not as a month of celebration, but as a stark reminder of the growing crisis facing the nation’s graduates. With mortarboards tossed in the air and diplomas in hand, more than 30,000 [Read More]
Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 May 2024: The recent suspension of six principals from top grade A schools in Freetown has sparked considerable concern regarding the integrity of the Teaching Service Commission (TSC). Parents from these affected schools have voiced reservations about the lack of due process, and for [Read More]
FCC Comms: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2024: Freetown City Council has had a first-hand view of the increasingly devastating impacts of kush on the lives of Freetonians. Over the course of the past few months, we have seen an extremely alarming escalation in the numbers of unclaimed corpses (dead [Read More]
Keith Walker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2024: Muslims and Christians in much of sub-Saharan Africa have a long history of religious tolerance. Sierra Leone in particular stands out as a positive example. In 2020, Africa had some 650 million Christians and 330 million Muslims. “In Sierra Leone, the practice [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2024: In Sierra Leone, the challenges surrounding childbirth pose life-threatening risks for women and newborns. The country currently ranks fifth in the world for infant mortality rates, with 34 deaths per 1,000 births. Additionally, Sierra Leone grapples with one of the highest maternal mortality rates [Read More]
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