The Sierra Leone Telegraph

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

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

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]

Sierra Leone passes North Korea style counter-terrorism laws

March 12, 2025 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: Last Friday, the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the UN representations in both countries, officially launched the GOLA-REAP (Resilience, Empowerment, Access, and Peacebuilding) project at Bo Waterside, Liberia. The event brought together government officials, representatives of the UN in Liberia [Read More]

Now we have a clear picture of the back room

March 2, 2025 1

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: For decades, Africa has been subjected to a pattern of coercion disguised as diplomacy. It is a cycle that repeats itself with every new U.S. administration, regardless of whether the president is a Democrat or a Republican. The recent events at [Read More]

Drug baron ‘Bolle’ Jos who is hiding in Sierra Leone is slammed another sentence in absentia

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: According to report by The Brussels Times, the notorious Dutch drug criminal ‘Bolle’ Jos Leijdekkers (Dutch for ‘tubby Jos’) who according to Dutch police is the most wanted person in the Netherlands, was last week sentenced to another prison term of 13 years in [Read More]

Ethnic politics and chieftaincy struggle in Sierra Leone – A threat to national unity

Alusine Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: Ethnic politics and traditional chieftaincy struggles have long shaped the socio-political landscape of Sierra Leone. The ongoing crisis in Gorama Mende Chiefdom is a striking example of how deeply entrenched political allegiances and tribal affiliations can fuel conflicts, threatening national cohesion. At [Read More]

Scottish surgeon who spends her holidays transforming lives on a hospital ship in Sierra Leone

Andy Morton ( for Press and Journal): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: Few people are as caring and compassionate as Manjit Dhillon, a facial reconstruction surgeon who gives up her holidays to volunteer on a hospital ship in Africa. But if you called her a hero, she’d likely shake [Read More]

African Leaders unite to mobilize African investment and financing for Agenda 2063

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: On the sidelines of the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African Heads of State, Government and Business Leaders convened for a Presidential Breakfast Dialogue to address the continent’s financing and investment gaps. The event [Read More]

EIB backs Africa Finance Corporation $750 Million Climate Resilient Infrastructure Fund

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed to join Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) in financing a $750 million Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund (ICRF). This landmark initiative will accelerate climate adaptation and sustainable infrastructure across Africa. As part of this commitment, the EIB today confirmed [Read More]

Sierra Leone – cocaine cartels and the rise of state capture

February 21, 2025 2

Abdoul Mahdieu Savage: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2025: Sierra Leone has come under renewed scrutiny as a key transit hub for international drug trafficking. A damning report by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs underscores the extent of the crisis, stating that [Read More]

The rise, ruin, and reckoning of a nation – through a kaleidoscope of changing colours

February 21, 2025 1

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2025: An article titled “Sierra Leone- the rise, the ruin, and the reckoning of a nation” (the 3 Rs), written by Oumar Farouk Sesay, a seasoned wordsmith and Sierra Leone’s very own Wole Soyinka (it’s not an exaggeration) is known for his pioneering [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s $300 million power crisis and the unending darkness

February 20, 2025 0

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2025: Sierra Leoneans have been subjected to unprecedented hardship due to massive and prolonged power outages across Freetown and other parts of the country. Despite promises of stable electricity supply, the government’s reliance on costly emergency power deals – such as the [Read More]

Sierra Leoneans will not forgive or forget those responsible for transforming the country into a narcotic state

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Abdulai Mansaray: Siera Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2025: Sierra Leone has a rich history, from slavery and the slave trade as one of the worst indelible marks on the conscience of mankind, to Sierra Leone emerging as a nation of “firsts”. The country once enjoyed a glorious history as the [Read More]

The pillage of the DRC’s rare mineral resources

March 2, 2025 1

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