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Madam Cassandra Garber admonishes Sierra Leone’s First Lady
Sierra Leone Telegraph 18 February 2021: It is not often that Madam (Canon) Cassandra Garber who is the President of the Krio Descendants Union of Sierra Leone and overseas, comments publicly on matters of State in Sierra Leone. But she has this week broken her silence to join the large sections of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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UNFPA and health stakeholders in Sierra Leone discuss health supply chain development plan
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2021: The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is supporting Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation to develop a five-year National Health Supply Chain Strategic Plan that will map out a broader view of the current state of the country’s health supply
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Le50 Million bail for electricity theft – Resident Minister North Abu Abu talks tough
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2021: Magistrate Mark Ngegba of the Pademba Road Magistrate Court No 2 in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Wednesday granted 28-year-old Adama Conteh bail in the sum of Le50,000,000, after appearing in court on preliminary investigations for dishonestly abstracting
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
President Bio unveils ten million Euro EU support for decentralisation and improved local service delivery
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 July 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday launched a 10 Million Euro programme in Makeni – northern Sierra Leone, aimed at supporting development projects across the district councils of Bombali, Kenema, Pujehun and Kambia. Supported by European Union
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Mines minister calls on mining companies to step up operations – SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2020: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources - Timothy Kabba and his team, last week conducted a two-day familiarisation tour of three mining companies in the southern and eastern districts of the country, to discuss mining operations. The
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Man arrested in Sierra Leone with thousands of rounds of ammunition
Sierra Leone Police:  Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2020: Management of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) would like to inform the general public that on Thursday 10th September, 2020,  at approximately 1400 hours, personnel of the SLP and the National Revenue Authority attached to Rogberay
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray and co-accused granted bail
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2021: The Judiciary Communications Unit of Sierra Leone has in the last hour announced that popular opposition politician Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray and co-accused, Marion Arouni have today been granted bail. They are both before the Sexual Offences Model Court
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra  Leone’s Civil Registration Authority to sanitise government’s pension payroll
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2021: Sierra Leone’s National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA)) has announced that it will be conducting a biometric verification of all those who are on the government’s pension scheme, whose details have been provided by NASSIT and the Accountant
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Former APC president Koroma and ministers to pay back hundreds of millions of dollars
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2020: The long awaited Commission of Inquiry Reports and White Paper were today delivered to Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio at State House by the country's Attorney General and Minister of Justice Brewah, amid massive riot police presence, after rumours
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leonean singer Diamond Cherry passes away in The Gambia
Lans Omar (40 Acres Media Canada): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 August 2021: Sierra Leonean singer, Mariam Sankoh Lamin aka 'Diamond Cherry' (Photo) passed away last Wednesday July 21, 2021 in The Gambia, after a long battle with illness, family sources have confirmed with 40 Acres media in
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
School in Sierra Leone takes centre stage at the World Education Week
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2020: One of Sierra Leone’s primary school - the EducAid Maronka Primary School in Port Loko, northern Sierra Leone will next month play a key part in the world’s biggest grassroots online education conference - World Education Week. EducAid Maronka Primary
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Dr Sylvia Blyden has been rearrested and detained
But yesterday, she was rearrested and sent to prison detention for allegedly breaching
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone COVID-19 Response Information Hub launched tomorrow
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2020: The Ministry of Information and Communications in collaboration with the Department for Science and Technological Innovation (DSTI), Statistics Sierra Leone and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, will tomorrow Friday 7 August 2020, be launching the Sierra
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Sierra Leone Journalist Sylvia Olayinka Blyden Detained, Charged Over Social Media Posts
On May 1, police arrested Blyden, publisher of the Awareness Times newspaper, at her home in Freetown for alleged "cyber-related" offenses, according to Messeh Leone, a legal activist familiar with the case, who spoke to CPJ via messaging app and phone, and a June 4 police statement, which CPJ
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Construction of Lungi Bridge to commence soon at $1.2 billion – says president Bio in state of nation address
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2021: President Bio today delivered an address to MPs and the nation that will come to define his three years in power, and set the agenda for his ruling SLPP party’s bid for a second term in governance. It was an address not short on details, in terms of his…
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
President Bio summon parliamentarians to emergency meeting next Monday
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2021: Parlaimentarians in Sierra Leone received a surprised notice from the Clerk of Parliament yesterday, saying that president Julius Maada Bio is convening an “emergency sitting” of all parliamentarians next Monday – 19th April 2021. There is no indication of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
There is a time for every purpose under heaven
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2021: In 2012, it was the time of Julius Maada Bio to petition election of Ernest Bai Koroma. Bio did not succeed. His petition was thrown out because of a technical mistake he made - he delayed to file within 7 [Read More]
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone prepares to open Lungi international airport
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 July 2020: Sierra Leone’s Director-General of the Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA) Moses Tiffa Baio, yesterday held talks with senior officials of the Ministry of Transport and Aviation (MTA) and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) about the necessary safety and
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone’s  Auditor General is under siege  – don’t shoot the messenger
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2021: It would seem that the latest reports from Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) have sparked a considerable amount of controversy. Simply put, people are split along two lines. Those who are not fans of the current government remark that with such
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Justice Miatta Samba is now Supreme Court Judge
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2021 Yesterday, Tuesday, one of Sierra Leone’s most popular and sometimes politically controversial former High Court Judges - Justice Miatta Maria Samba, was sworn-in as Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, following her appointment by President Dr Julius
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone discusses the creation of Smart Africa with other countries
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2020: Vice President of Sierra Leone - Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh today committed Sierra Leone to the creation of a ‘Smart Africa’ – a bold vision of transforming Africa into a single digital market through collaboration. Speaking at a virtual board meeting
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Jacob Majekodumni William Walker – Gone but not forgotten
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2020: The death is reported of Mr. Jacob Majekodumni William Walker, who sadly passed away on the 27th of October 2020, at the Choithram Memorial Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. He was 86 years old. Jacob Majekodumni William Walker was Managing Partner at
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone improves its 2020 MCC performance by two scores 
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2020: The United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone - Maria Brewer, today called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio, to congratulate his government after passing thirteen out of the twenty Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard indicators for 2020. In 2019
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Former ministers and state officials to lose their dishonestly acquired assets
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2020: Yesterday, the Sierra Leone Telegraph published the Sierra Leone government’s response (White Paper) to the recommendations of the Justice Biobele led Commission of Inquiry into the management of State affairs by the previous APC government of president
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Sierra Leonean technologist’s app helps to fight COVID-19
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2020: Evelyn Lewis, a Sierra Leonean social entrepreneur and technologist, has developed an application to aid the fight against COVID-19. His software company, SBTS Group, developed the Health Outbreak Manager (HOM) software which consists of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Massive illegal Chinese goldmining uncovered in Eastern Sierra Leone
James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2021: Hot on the heels of the corrupt $55m Chinese fishmeal factory deal at Black Johnson in Freetown, Western Sierra Leone, as well as the attempted impalement of a Sierra Leonean worker by a Chinese manager at the Tonkolili mine in Northern
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone government’s supplementary budget and the reality of Covid-19 economics
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2020: With an unbelievable 5.4 percent recovered GDP in 2019, which was further projected to grow by 4.2 percent in 2020 but now expected to decline to 3.1 percent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sierra Leone’s policymakers need a new
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Senior Chinese official in Freetown says there are no plans for a fish feed factory in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2021: After several weeks of media attention on allegations of the government of Sierra Leone having sold precious seaside land to the Chinese for the construction of a fish feed factory that critics say will destroy the environment and cause massive suffering on the
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World Bank approves additional $6.8 million to strengthen education service delivery in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2021: The government of Sierra Leone will receive $6.85 million in additional financing to support the COVID-19 education response in the country, the World Bank announced yesterday. Funded by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) under the Free Education
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone parliament ratifies Lungi airport expansion and seaport lease agreements
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2021: Just twenty-four hours after announcing its out of court settlement of its ill-advised, long-drawn battle with iron ore mining Group – Gerald, costing the people of Sierra Leone millions of dollars in lost export revenue, the government of Sierra Leone is said
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