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Detention of Dr. Sylvia Blyden dents president Bio’s global image
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2020: When international human rights organisations start calling on a Head of State to respect the civil and human rights of citizens in accordance with the country’s constitution, then questions must be asked about the direction the country is heading. Early this
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Mob justice has no place in Sierra Leone madam Fatima Bio must take note
Yankuba Kai Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2020: Mob justice undermines the rule of law and makes the work of our police more difficult. Standing next to her husband the president of Sierra Leone, Mrs Fatima Jabbie Bio two days ago,  called on people to strip naked and [Read More]
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
FIYAH — 6.8.20 4PM ONE-ON-ONE with MARK CUBAN, Outspoken owner of the Dallas Mavericks | BlackPressUSA
Not one to bite his tongue on social issues, the Mavs owner re-tweeted an open letter by Emerson College President M. Lee Pelton. The 61-year-old billionaire offered his support to the African American community and bravely claimed that whites (such as himself) are the ones that need to change. Has
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Palo Conteh treason verdict  I salute the Jury – Op ed
Cornelius Deveaux: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: Certainly, right thinking Sierra Leoneans and by extension the wider citizenry, will be appalled by a post on the official Facebook page of the SLPP government Ministry of Information and Communications, intending to purport that Sierra
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Young people perceive COVID-19 as catalyst to re-shape Africa’s future
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2020: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has published its first Now Generation Network Survey findings on the impact of COVID-19, entitled “COVID-19 in Africa: what does it mean for young people?” The report analyses youth perspectives on the challenges Africa faces as
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Trump Administration Withholding $14 Billion in Critical Coronavirus Funding | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In a letter Democratic Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Washington) sent this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the senators reveal that the Trump administration has "still failed" to distribute more than $8 billion out of $25
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Dr Sylvia Blyden’s trial adjourned
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 08 June 2020: The seditious libel case involving Sierra Leone’s former minister of social welfare and journalist – Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, was adjourned today to Friday 12 June 2020, after prosecution witness who is the lead police investigator – Detective M.K. Alieu, was
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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WATCH: Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) Talks VP Candidacy, Blasts Trump for Pardons
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Demings heads Biden’s list of potential running mates along with CBC Chair Karen Bass (D-Calif.), former Georgia State Rep. Stacey Abrams, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, former U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice and
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OP-ED: 8 minutes and 46 seconds | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The catalyst for the latest demonstrations was the senseless and tragic death of George Floyd on May 25 at the hands of four police officers in Minneapolis, Minn. Floyd’s death, those horrific eight minutes and 46 seconds as this American was begging for his life on an American
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Sierra Leonean blues and jazz singer and guitarist – Bai Kamara nominated in US Blues Blast Music Award
Bolaji Alonge: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2020: Sierra Leonean singer, songwriter and guitarist, Bai Kamara Jr & The Voodoo Sniffers album Salone, which was released earlier this year has been nominated in the Best Acoustic Blues Album category at the Blues Blast Music Award ceremony to be
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Palo Conteh should never have been charged with treason
Yankuba Kai Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 July 2020: No jury should convict a man  when the prosecution blocked vital material evidence that could exonerate him. This was what I wrote two days before the jury reached their verdict. The Paopa government supporters who had already convicted Paola
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
WHO to increase COVID-19 testing from 500 up to 1000 a day in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2020: The World Health Organization Country Office has secured a grant of €500,000 from the German Technical Cooperation (GIZ) through a strategic partnership to increase COVID-19 testing capacity from 500 up to 1000 tests per day in Sierra Leone. The support will
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
IN MEMORIAM: Legendary Civil Rights Icon C.T. Vivian Dies at 95 | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Some thoughts on the Reverend C.T. Vivian, a pioneer who pulled America closer to our founding ideals and a friend I will miss greatly," Former President Barack Obama wrote in a statement. "We've lost a founder of modern America, a pioneer who shrunk the gap between reality and our
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Los Angeles City Mayor Pleads for George Floyd Protests to 'Take a Step Back' due to Violent Acts in L.A. over 300 arrested | BlackPressUSA
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Yesterday Mayor Garcetti responded to the devastating news of George Floyd by stating, “…He was far from the first, the end of his life, was another page in the worst chapter of our nation’s history of what it means to be black in America. 244 years into our attempts to
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NNPA Salutes Attorney Benjamin Crump and The Crump Law Firm in Memory and Honor of the Family of George Floyd | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Benjamin Crump has earned recognition as a freedom fighting lawyer who doesn’t hesitate to defend the life and legacy of African Americans harmed by police violence and racially motivated acts. He currently represents the families of Ahmad Arberry, George Floyd and other Black men
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COMMENTARY: Real Table Talk
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Consider for a moment who on your street, in your building, in your family, in your circles are disadvantaged by age (65 years or older), disability (physical and mental), and/or social (food insecure, laid off, or homeless), and reach out to them. If you have, share. If you
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EU and Ireland provide 1.5 Million Euros  to help tackle COVID-19 across districts in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 July 2020: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai yesterday Tuesday, launched the “Team Europe Initiative” aimed at supporting decentralized COVID-19 response in Sierra Leone. The “Team Europe Initiative” will support and
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Big Mac Racism at McDonald's | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Under the guise of reorganizing the way they manage the franchise system, the restaurant system across the country, they basically decimated the ranks of the African American leadership and employees,” Caruso said. “That to me is one of the most glaring act of intentional
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Dr Sylvia Blyden to appear in court today charged with ten counts of seditious libel
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 08 June 2020: Sierra Leone’s former minister of social welfare, and journalist – Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, who was arrested on the 1st of May 2020 by heavily armed police who broke into her home, after criticising the president for his approach in handling the coronavirus
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone National Water Resources Management Agency meets ministers
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2020: The National Water Resources Management (NWRMA) last Thursday, held discussions with Ministers and Heads of Agencies at its office in Freetown to review the Western Area Water Catchments Protection and Restoration effort. The discussions also assessed the
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone Commercial Bank  boosts government’s Covid-19 response with Le500 million
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 July 2020: The Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB), the most profitable and one hundred percent Sierra Leonean owned bank, yesterday boosted the work of the country’s National Covid-19 Emergency Response Centre (NACOVERC), with the sum of five hundred million Leones
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Sierra Leone Parliament has got rid of the country's criminal libel laws
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 July 2020: Yesterday, Thursday 23 July 2020  was a momentous day for journalism in Sierra Leone, as the country’s Parliamentarians unanimously voted to repeal the draconian laws that criminalise libel, as enshrined in Part 5 of the Public Order Act of 1965 (Act No. 46 of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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President Bio is determined to guarantee press freedom in Sierra Leone
SL Ministry of Information: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2020: Guaranteeing press freedom, promoting and protecting the rights of journalists, giving oxygen of  publicity to the voices of reasoning, and making the country compete with other civilized democratic nations, His Excellency President
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Opposition APC leadership hit by multiple deaths in road accident
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2020: Sierra Leones main opposition All Peoples Congress Party (APC) today suffered a massive blow, after a vehicle carrying three of the partys Northern regions senior officials, were killed in a road traffic accident on their way to Freetown from Kabala, Koinadugu
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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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
Parliament approves president Bio’s government supplementary budget
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2020: Parliament of Sierra Leone last Friday, 24th July 2020 approved the government's 2020 Financial Year Supplementary Budget and Statement of Economic and Financial Policies, tabled by the  Minister of Finance - Mr. Jacob Jusu Saffa. Presrenting his budget to
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
With 150, 000 Dead and Polls in Free Fall, Trump Seeks a Culture War
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Trump’s poll numbers indicate he will have an uphill battle defeating Joe Biden. In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost the electoral college but won the popular vote over Trump by 2.8 million votes. Trump’s poll numbers in vital battleground states are in freefall and he continues to
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Dr. Manal Ghazzawi of Sierra Leone bags prestigious award
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2020: One of Sierra Leone’s most outstanding female pharmacists and entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone, Dr. Manal Ghazzawi, is the latest and proud recipient of one of the world’s prestigious awards, bestowed on her by Women in Africa Entrepreneur
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — There are many things you can do with these cookies- you can eat them by themselves, put some chocolate and marshmallows on top to make s'mores, or create a cheesecake filling, just like I did.
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Keep energy central in pandemic recovery plans – says Kandeh Yumkella
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 July 2020: Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, MP for Constituency 062 – Samu Chiefdom, joined global energy leaders at a virtual high-level summit to take stock of the impact of the coronavirus disease on the Africa’s energy, oil, and gas sectors. The Africa Ministerial Roundtable
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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