Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2024: President Bio has taken over full responsibility for and control of the overall management and supervision of Sierra Leone’s electricity sector, after sacking the incumbent minister of energy Kanja Sesay last week. Kanja Sesay’s downfall came following the death of a toddler at the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2024: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Executive Secretary, Claver Gatete, has challenged African youth to raise their voice in shaping the future development of the continent ahead of the Summit of the Future. Opening the African Youth Consultative Forum on the UN Summit for [Read More]

Mackie M Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2024: As the world turns its gaze toward Sierra Leone on its 63rd Independence Day, the nation finds itself at a crossroads of reflection and despair. For six decades and three years, this West African nation has trudged through a quagmire of [Read More]

Bob Massally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2024: The optics of a thousand Kilo elephant in a well-lit room most Pan-Africanist are opaque to or is obscured by rose-tinted glasses or tight-fitting blinkers is the inept and failed leadership in Africa not only by Presidents but by the elite and [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh – The Fox: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2024: As Sierra Leoneans, today we commemorate another Independence Day, but one question looms heavy: why should we celebrate a nationhood that has failed to deliver on its promises? For far too long, our people have endured the bitter [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 April 2024: Dr Kanja Sesay, Sierra Leone’s energy minister has this afternoon tendered his resignation, after failing to address the country’s perennial electricity blackouts that have in the last few months sent the entire capital Freetown into darkness, not only putting lives at risk but has [Read More]

Magnus Cole: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2024: In early April, social media in Sierra Leone went agog over the surprising appearance of President Julius Maada Bio in a Maybach Mercedes car. Bio was at this year’s annual alumni celebration of the foundation Day of the Bo Government Secondary School [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2024: Following the death of a child at the Freetown Maternity hospital – PCMH on Tuesday, and mounting criticism of government’s indifference in the face of acute electricity outage across the country, the ministry of health yesterday published a statement, promising to put measures in [Read More]