Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2020: Last Thursday, the management of Mercury International presented a cheque of Le 500 million to President Dr Julius Maada Bio to support the construction of a multi-storey classroom building for the St. Joseph’s Convent Secondary School in Freetown. Managing Director of the Sports Betting [Read More]
Rodney Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2020: There has been no vocal advocate and supporter of Sierra Leone’s (National Covid-19 Emergency Response Centre (NACOVERC) than me. I have defended and supported them in public and in privately and written several articles in support of their handling of the COVID [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2020: Born on 17th October 1920, Mr Mohamed Sallieu Thomas is one of Freetown’s oldest residents, and arguably the oldest in Aberdeen, West of Freetown, Sierra Leone. He is the patriarch of the Thomas family of Aberdeen – descendants of Liberated Africans slaves who founded [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2020: A BBC News Arabic investigation has uncovered systemic child abuse inside Islamic schools in Sudan. There are nearly 30,000 Islamic schools, known as “khalwas” across Sudan. The investigation, “The Schools that Chain Boys”, has found that boys as young as five-years-old are routinely chained, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2020: Yesterday, Saturday 10th October, Advocacy for Mental Health and Human Rights (AMHHR) joined hands to observe World Mental Health Day to raise awareness on mental health issues around the world and mobilise efforts in support of mental health, particularly in Sierra Leone. The organisation [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2020: President Julius Maada Bio today launched the Free Education Project, intended to support the government’s flagship human capital initiative – the Free Quality School Education Program. The World Bank, the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and Irish [Read More]
Dele Ogun: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2020: This paper was delivered by Dele Ogun (Photo), Convenor of the Fatherland Group at the 19th anniversary celebration of the African Voice Newspaper on 19th September 2020. I was a boy of 7 when I came to Britain in 1969 from my [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2020: Three-quarters of people over-40 in Sierra Leone have at least one health factor that could contribute to cardiovascular disease – creating a ‘ticking time bomb’ of death and disability in one of the world’s poorest counties, a new study reveals. Researchers found that cardiovascular [Read More]
Abdul Rashid Thomas & Pauline Pratt: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2020: The arrival of the first freed slaves to Sierra Leone in 1787 after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade which led to the creation of what became known as Freetown – the capital city of Sierra Leone, [Read More]
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