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Sierra Leone’s consumer protection laws strengthened – will consumers have faith in the justice system?
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2020: Sierra Leoneans may be among the most discerning and 'shopping savvy' group of consumers on the continent but few understand their legal rights, let alone have confidence in the country's legal system when it comes to seeking justice after parting with their
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Appeals court judges reject State’s attempt to derail Palo Conteh’s case
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 December 2020: Sierra Leone Judiciary's Appeals Court yesterday Tuesday, rejected an attempt by the State Prosecutor to derail former minister of defence – Retired Major Palo Conteh's appeal hearing. According to report by Awareness Times, the legal manoeuvre by the State
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Africa: COVID-19 - How to Press the Brakes On the Escalating Global Learning Crisis
And governments must develop a plan for distance learning, remedial education, and to get students back into schools when they
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Independence for Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone proclaimed independent.
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27
1961
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Coronavirus in Africa: 259,111 cases; 7,016 deaths; 118,748 recoveries
There are now more than over 220,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
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ACC indicts senior officials of the Sierra Leone civil aviation authority for corruption
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Tuesday, filed an indictment against Julian Clarke, Human Resource Manager at the country’s Civil Aviation Authority (SLCAA), along with Sallieu Kargbo, Senior Finance Officer at SLCAA - both resident of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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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Does president Julius Maada Bio deserve a second term?
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2021: As the 2023 electioneering campaigns slowly begin in Sierra Leone, there is need to reflect on the campaign promises made by Mr. Julius Maada Bio when he sought the presidency, as well as particular focus on Mrs. Fatima
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone – Mining dispute threatens United States firms
Gregory Simpkins: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2021: The decision by Sierra Leone to shut down the operations of U.S.-owned SL Mining has called into question that government’s commitment to the rule of law with regard to foreign investors. Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Government has initiated
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of
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Sierra Leone: Nigerian High Commissioner Pays Courtesy Call On Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio, Announces Commencement of Air Peace to Freetown
[Sierra Leone Government] Nigerian High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, His Excellency Henry John Omaku, has called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio to announce the commencement of Air Peace, a direct flight from Lagos to Freetown.
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President Bio accused of misogyny and lying about refused entry to hotels in Japan
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2021: Serious doubts are once again being expressed about the integrity and credibility of Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio who is now caught up in accusations of misogyny, as well as lying about being refused entry into hotels in Japan as president because
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
President Bio receives  new High Commissioner of Canada to Ghana and Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2021: Yesterday Friday, Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana and Sierra Leone, Kati Csaba presented her letter of credence via video conferencing to President Dr Julius Maada Bio, marking the commencement of her tour of duty in the country. High Commissioner Kati Csaba
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Sierra Leone gets its first female deputy head of police force
Sierra Leone has appointed its first female Deputy Inspector General of Police
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Brazen armed robbers arrested during curfew in Freetown
Sierra Leoneans are raising concerns over the spate of armed robberies in the country, and calling on the police to be more
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
High-level Guinean delegation meets President Bio in Freetown
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2021: A high-level delegation led by the Guinean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Guineans Abroad, Dr Ibrahim Khalil Kaba, today conveyed a letter from Guinea’s President Alpha Conde to President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown. The Guinean team
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Sierra Leone’s Central Bank Governor angers Judges after accusing them of taking bribe
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2021: Sierra Leone’s Bank Governor, Professor Kelfala M. Kallon, the man that many in Sierra Leone had pinned much hope on, of helping the government turn the economy around but has so far failed, is in deep trouble with the judiciary after accusing the
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Costs of fuel gone up in Sierra Leone amid fears of rising inflation
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2021: In a press release issued on Thursday 1st July, 2021 by the Petroleum Regulatory Agency (PRA) it was announced that the PRA in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Oil Marketing Companies
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Africa: Here We Are Again - Will Racist Violence in the United States Ever End?
George Floyd's name is now added to the tragic list - already far too long - of other people of color whose lives have been cut short as a direct result of the United States' long history of racism and white
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Sierra Leone's Bunce Island, where thousands of enslaved Africans were shipped to the Americas - Face2Face Africa
Bunce Island in Sierra Leone, 20 miles up the Sierra Leone River, and a few miles north of the capital Freetown, was home to one of the most profitable slave trading operations in West Africa. Established in 1670 by English slave traders, it was the largest British slave castle on the Rice Coast
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Speculation grows over date of next election in Sierra Leone
It will be recalled that the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Candidate, Brig. (Rtd) Julius Maada Bio, and the All Peoples Congress (APC) Candidate, Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara, emerged first and second respectively, during the first round of the fiercely contested presidential election held
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Football: Moroccan right-back Hakimi signs for PSG, most expensive summer transfer | Africanews
The French side announced the 22-year-old former Real Madrid youth player has signed a five-year contract at the Parc des Princes following reports the clubs had agreed a fee around 83 milllon dollars (USD).
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Sierra Leone staunchly supports institutional reforms of ECOWAS Commission – says president Bio
Sierra Leone telegraph: 19 June 2021: Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio is in Accra, Ghana today, where he is attending the 59th ordinary session of the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government summit, chaired by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President Ghana. Speaking at the summit, this is what
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
NGC concludes COVID-19 sensitization in the South East region of Sierra Leone
Following a five-day visit to the southeast of Sierra Leone, Hon. Kandeh Yumkella – leader of the national Granf Coalition (NGC) in parliament, has completed his coronavirus disease sensitization
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Tanzania On High Alert Over Ebola From DRC, Guinea
[East African] Tanzania is among six African countries on high alert following an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea on February 14 and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a week earlier.
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The Omrie Golley Story: Return of the Kabbah administration – Major setbacks for peace
Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2021: The Armed forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) coup of May 1997 was short lived. With the assistance of ECOMOG troops, the militia known as the Kamajors, and the support of the sub region and the international community, the late
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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