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Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-16T10:04:12+00:00
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2026: Since the beginning of time, human beings have told stories not merely to remember who they were, but to decide who they belonged to. Around fires, within clans, and eventually across kingdoms and civilizations, communities crafted narratives of origin, ancestry, triumph, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-16T09:45:35+00:00
Haroun Zubairu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2026: My fellow Sierra Leoneans, there is now another major development in the controversy surrounding the Constitutional Amendment Bill. President Julius Maada Bio has referred a petition concerning the Bill to the Supreme Court, relying on Section 122 subsection 1 of the 1991 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-16T08:49:00+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2026: The Gates Foundation today announced plans to spend at least US$1 billion over the next two years to expand access to artificial intelligence and the AI-enabled solutions, opportunities, and knowledge that have too often been out of reach for many around the world. The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-15T08:27:18+00:00
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: President Julius Maada Bio has referred the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill to the Supreme Court for a judicial opinion, citing the need for constitutional clarity and national consensus on the Bill. “It is the President’s considered view that the passage of such an [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-15T08:05:11+00:00
Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: President Julius Maada Bio says hi Government needs US$61 million to conduct the 2026 Population and Housing Census. For a country with about 9 million people, this number is shockingly high. It means the census will cost about US$7 per person [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-15T07:54:30+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: Spiro, Africa’s leading electric mobility company, has signed a partnership with Yadea, the world’s leading manufacturer of electric two-wheelers, to scale accessible and sustainable electric transport across Africa. The strategic partnership combines Yadea’s global manufacturing and R&D capabilities with Spiro’s operational network and battery-swapping [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-15T07:36:58+00:00
Alusine Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: A few days ago, I watched a video of Sierra Leone’s government Chief Minister – Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, in a meeting with the Minister of Social Welfare, Mrs. Melrose Karminty, where he gave instructions for the establishment of a care home [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-15T07:22:57+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: New tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, which are expected to become available from 2029, could help save up to an estimated 7.3 million lives between 2030 and 2050[1], unlocking up to US$ 135 billion in economic benefits across low- and middle-income countries, according to new analysis [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-10T08:39:47+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: Vodafone Business and Cassava Technologies announced a strategic partnership to develop and enable advanced sovereign AI infrastructure in Egypt through the launch of the country’s first AI factory for operating diverse AI applications and use cases locally. This step aims to position Egypt as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-10T08:21:28+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: In Mobaye, Central African Republic, women are gradually turning their savings into projects for themselves and their families. Business, agriculture, livestock farming or their children’s education, the choices are theirs. When Henriette Yambata received 38,000 CFA francs (approximately USD 67) after several months of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-10T07:52:13+00:00
Davidnette Vandy (Switsalone): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: Behind every “A” to “Z” is an opportunity to discover a word, understand an idea, ask a question and begin making sense of the world around them. But what happens when that world looks and feels familiar? (Photo above: A child [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-10T07:34:46+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: With Zambia having received the delivery of the first US-funded HIV prevention medicine Lenacapavir, UNAIDS is now working in close partnership with the Zambian government, communities, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the US government to ensure that this new [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-07T09:31:42+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: A report coming out of the University of Lagos has examined the environmental effects of British colonial rule in Africa and has asked that this value be included in all reparations conversation. The report, titled CO2lonianism, Ecocide, Reparations, argues that the long-lasting ecological harm [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-07T08:28:18+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: ECOWAS, West Africa’s regional political block, has once again shown its maturity and capability in handling and resolving political disputes in member nations. Yesterday, the former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, who has been living in exile in Nigeria, hosted and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph · Sierra Leone · 2026-09-07T07:37:03+00:00
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, one of the city’s hardest hit by climate change, the destruction of forests, and environmental pollution, is now using technological innovation to help transform lives, by installing biodigesters in communities across the city. Last week, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne [Read More]
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