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]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2024: The unauthorized landing of a unidentified aircraft at Freetown International Airport last Friday, September 20, has ignited a firestorm of concern across Sierra Leone. The mysterious plane, said to have flown from Liberia and allegedly en route to Mexico, landed in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2024: UN Women has launched the “Generation Equality accountability report 2024”, which uncovers significant progress on the commitments made by this multi-stakeholder initiative since its inception in 2021. The report launches as world leaders explore solutions to intertwined global challenges at the Summit of the Future in New [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 September 2024: The rising trade of human organs “has reached an epidemic level, yet it is receiving much of public silence,” Nigerian human rights lawyer Frank Tietie told DW. “You one would have expected the level of public condemnation against it would have been much higher, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 September 2024: Applications for the 2025 Ibrahim Leadership Fellowship are now open. The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships are a 12-month programme designed to support the professional development of future African leaders. The Fellowship programme invites emerging leaders from across Africa to apply to join the 2025 cohort [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2024: In yet another grim reminder of Sierra Leone’s growing building safety crisis, a seven-story structure on Shell Bai Bureh Road in Freetown crumbled to the ground yesterday, Monday, 16th September 2024, leaving dozens trapped underneath the rubble and several feared dead. [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2024: Every generation of a nation carries the torch of hope, striving to build a future that surpasses the present. The foundation of this aspiration lies in the investments made today in the children who will inherit tomorrow. For most nations, this [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2024: The UN Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) top operations and protection officials are calling attention to the plight of 3.7 million forcibly displaced people in Nigeria and the need to accelerate sustainable solutions for them. Commending the government for respecting its international legal obligations and welcoming [Read More]
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