The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2025: Sierra Leoneans woke up to the news that our nation has been grouped together with countries like Russia, Myanmar, South Sudan, Haiti etc. to face sharply restricted access to visa to the USA. While it is still in draft form, and even [Read More]

Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge grand prize and growth grant semifinalists, Seed Grant finalists revealed

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2025: Seeding The Future Foundation and the Institute of Food Technologists are proud to announce the Grand Prize and Growth Grant semifinalists as well as the Seed Grant finalists for the 2024 Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge. A record of nearly 1,200 submissions [Read More]

Sierra Leone topping Africa for all the wrong reasons

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2025: Sierra Leone, a nation that once stood as a beacon of hope in West Africa, is now making headlines for all the wrong reasons. According to the Enhancing Africa’s Response to Transnational Organized Crimes (ENACT) 2023 report, our country has emerged [Read More]

ECOWAS announces Ecotour 19-29 training to enhance regional tourism policy implementation

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced the upcoming ECOTOUR 19-29 Training Support to the Implementation of Tourism Regional Policy. (Photo: Tacugama-chimpanzeee-sanctuary in Sierra Leone). This significant event underscores ECOWAS’s commitment to strengthening the tourism sector across West Africa, fostering economic [Read More]

When the truth is found to be lies, all the joy within you dies – Op ed

Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge grand prize and growth grant semifinalists, Seed Grant finalists revealed

Sierra Leone topping Africa for all the wrong reasons

ECOWAS announces Ecotour 19-29 training to enhance regional tourism policy implementation

EU targets Africa’s mineral wealth and green energy in new partnership

March 17, 2025 2

Robert Hodgson (Euronews): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The European Commission is launching negotiations on what it hails as a first-of-a-kind Clean Trade and Investment Partnership, president Ursula von der Leyen has announced while on a diplomatic mission to Cape Town. “South Africa has everything to become a global [Read More]

The nexus between food security, peace and stability calls for a holistic approach in policy design

Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: Food systems are defined as the networks needed to produce, transform, and distribute food to consumers. These systems encompass everything from agricultural production and supply chains to storage, transportation, and retail. (Photo above: President Bio of Sierra Leone, launching ambitious [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sub-regional development banks urged to scale up financing to accelerate Africa’s development

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The role of sub-regional multilateral development banks (MDBs) in advancing Africa’s development objectives took centre stage during a high-level panel discussion held on the sidelines of the Fifty-Seventh Session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning, and [Read More]

Sierra Leone passes North Korea style counter-terrorism laws

March 12, 2025 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2025: Many Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad are now seriously at risk of being declared terrorists, for simply criticising the government of President Julius Maada Bio who few years ago annulled the death penalty, only to replace it with extra-judicial killings by state sanctioned [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s new Anti-Terrorism laws – another whip to keep the people in line – Op ed

March 12, 2025 0

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2025: As always, it is another sad day in the history of Sierra Leone. After sixty years of the Public Order Act, which was imposed under the leadership of Sir Albert Margai in 1965, we find ourselves crying over spilled milk yet [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s electricity sector hits rock botton as EDSA is accused of shameful admission of failure

March 12, 2025 0

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2025: For the first time in Sierra Leone’s history, citizens have been subjected to the most disgraceful and insulting press release from the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA). This pathetic excuse of a statement, blaming the dry season for the country’s [Read More]

Mayor Aki-Sawyerr joins Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to celebrate 5th anniversary of EJS Centre

March 8, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2025: In 2020, Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr joined former Liberian President – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to launch the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Centre for Women and Development (“the EJS Centre”). Marking its fifth birthday, and on the eve of International Women’s Day, this is [Read More]

Autistic woman from Sierra Leone wrongly held in mental hospital in London for almost 50 years

March 8, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2025: Today we mark International Women’s Day in celebration of the achievements of women all over the world. But so too, must we remember the struggles of millions of women – especially Kasibba (not her real name), a woman from Sierra Leone who was wrongly [Read More]

Sierra Leone implements Commonwealth Secretariat software to manage its $1.08 billion public debt

March 8, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2025: Sierra Leone has implemented Meridian, an advanced Commonwealth Secretariat software, to better manage its public debt portfolio of USD 1.08 billion. This upgrade will enable the government to track loans and repayments in real time, improving financial transparency and decision-making. At the government’s request, [Read More]

Implementation of Sierra Leone’s political peace accord on slow track

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2025: After much uncertainty about the peace accord signed by the ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC in Sierra Leone, after the controversial June 2023 general and presidential elections, which ushered in a Tripartite agreement aimed at the implementation of recommendations of a Report [Read More]

The pillage of the DRC’s rare mineral resources

March 2, 2025 1

Dr Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: Many of the world’s rare minerals are in the DRC. Western companies are heavily involved in mining them. They prefer a weak government in Kinshasa that they already control to an unstable environment that threatens their investments and access to the [Read More]

EBID and EIB supports climate action and environmental sustainability projects in ECOWAS region

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), the European Investment Bank (EIB), with the support of the European Union (EU), today announce a €100 million financial partnership to support climate action and environmental sustainability projects in the ECOWAS region. A project with a [Read More]

Afreximbank and Kenyan government ink milestone agreements to promote industralisation

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa’s foremost trade development Bank, last week in Mombasa, Kenya, ratified a series of initiatives designed to support Kenya’s industrialisation and export-led development agenda. Under the terms of the initiatives, formalised at a signing ceremony with the Kenyan authorities, Afreximbank [Read More]

UN, governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone promote cross-border peacebuilding in Gola Forest