Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2024: A group of prominent scientists, advocates and policy leaders have issued an open letter to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC Secretariat Simon Stiell as world leaders gather in Baku for COP29. The signatories of this letter are friends of the COP and believe [Read More]
Mayor Eduardo Paes & Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2024 Climate change isn’t waiting—and neither can we. Around the world the climate crisis is at risk of becoming a political football with some nations no longer the reliable climate allies they once were. If this month’s G20 [Read More]
Deodat Maharaj: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 September 2024: The Paris Agreement on climate change is a decade old this month. While there has been progress – with new net zero pledges and new technological solutions, we are still grappling with the reality that global temperatures continue to soar. 2023 was [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2024: The five 2024 Earthshot Prize Winners were announced yesterday, at a star-studded awards ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted by Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Billy Porter and award-winning television presenter Bonang Matheba. The 2024 Winners, selected from this year’s 15 Earthshot [Read More]
Dr Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2024: In Sierra Leone, we’re sadly used to seeing some strange things in our institutions, but the recent concluded National Cyber Awareness Schools Debate 2024 took things to a new level. This event, which should have celebrated young talent, turned into a confusing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2024: The Ministerial Alliance for Ambition on Nature Finance (MAANF) yesterday shared a statement signed by 20 Ministers of Environment from the Global South, ‘Seeking Accountability on Ambition for Nature Finance.’ Released on the second day of the High-Level segment, the statement calls on countries [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2024: The Commonwealth People’s Forum – the largest gathering of civil society in the Commonwealth – convened leading experts on public health and contagious disease to discuss how to improve healthcare quality and access for communities across the globe. Health specialists, indigenous-community health advocates, and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2024: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation today released the 2024 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), the latest iteration of the biennial dataset assessing governance performance and trends in the 54 African countries over the decade 2014-2023. Collected from 49 independent sources, with some data commissioned [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2024: Sierra Leone’s government has prided itself on leading a global charge against sexual violence, with initiatives that span from the local to the international stage. With groundbreaking campaigns including its “Hands Off Our Girls”, and other bold moves such as the [Read More]
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