The International Press Institute (IPI) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2013 The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed serious concern today over the future of press freedom in Sierra Leone, following inflammatory statements made by Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (Photo: Left of former Nigerian President Obasanjo), special executive assistant to President [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2013 There is an old proverb, which says that: “The death that kills a man, it is said, begins as an appetite.” For beleaguered governments, especially in our part of the world, volatile, divisive political issues and exotic foreign junketing that [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 May 2013 The global economic downturn which started almost five years ago, has left most of the developed economies too weak and fragile to make a quick recovery. Low economic growth, high unemployment and a volatile energy market are dampening confidence of a recovery any [Read More]
Anthony Kamara Jnr. The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2013 The chairman of Sierra Leone’s National Telecommunication Commission (NATCOM) – Siray A. Timbo, was recently lauded in Istanbul, Turkey, for the bold steps he is taking in addressing the country’s ICT regulation challenges. Mr. Timbo (Photo) was attending the 8th [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2013 A new report on Africa’s economic competitiveness published last week, says that the strides made by African economies in achieving economic growth, must be accompanied by efforts to boost long-term competitiveness, if the continent is to ensure sustainable improvements in living standards. The Africa [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2013 Sierra Leone’s economy is classed amongst a group of ten African economies, whose annual growth rates have far exceeded the continent’s average of 4%. This is largely the result of recent increase in Foreign Direct investments (FDI) and export revenue. However, there are [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2013 African countries are gradually coming to the realization that they cannot continue to marginalize and ignore the economic potential of two-thirds of their population – women. Although the reality for most of Africa is that women have for centuries acted as the invisible [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2013 Yenga is a potentially mineral rich territory belonging to Sierra Leone, which the despotic regime of Guinea has annexed and claimed ownership, for over a decade. Playing a silly game of ‘finders – keepers’, successive governments in Conakry, have shown nothing but disrespect [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 April 2013 Dennis Kabatto Reigning Miss Sierra Leone USA 2013 – Ruby B. Johnson leaves the United States of America Thursday to take part in Saturday’s independence ceremony. While in Sierra Leone she will visit school girls at all levels in order to promote her [Read More]
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