News in Perspective

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2016 Continuing our series of articles, discussing the declining economic influence, and to some extent political role of the United States in Africa, today we look at whether and how the US can help vulnerable countries in the continent, to best protect themselves against the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 May 2016 While African countries such as Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Zimbabwe may be receiving huge sums of donor funds and resources from China to help keep their governments afloat, such benevolence does not come cheap. With every single Chinese Yuan, there is a long string [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 May 2016 President Obama is now counting his days at the White House. And so too are the people of Africa counting the economic benefits of having a son of Africa – as the first black president of the world’s most powerful and wealthy nation. Has [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2016 Whilst large numbers of unemployed and disaffected youths and supporters of the Koroma government were drowning their sorrows of poverty and joblessness, by dancing in the streets of Freetown on Independence celebration day, a brutal carnage was being unleashed by the police on members [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2016 There are reports from Freetown this afternoon of police storming the offices of Sierra Leone’s main opposition SLPP party in Freetown. Eye witness report speaks of live bullets and tears gas being fired. Hundreds of party supporters gathered at the offices to celebrate the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2016 After his landslide victory at the polls last Saturday in London, the newly elected chairman of the official UK and Ireland branch of the opposition SLPP – Mr. Ansu Sillah, spoke to the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph, about his hopes and challenges [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2014 After months of infighting and much acrimony, the UK and Ireland branch of Sierra Leone’s main opposition political party – the SLPP, yesterday elected the executives that will help the national party in Freetown, win the 2018 general elections. But there were two ‘SLPP [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2016 Another year – another independence anniversary in four days time – 27th April, except that once again, there is not much to celebrate. Sierra Leone, after 55 years of independence is almost bankrupt, and is one of the poorest nations in the world. Despite [Read More]