Freetown Daily Newspaper

Leaking National Purse: Over NLe 1.3 Billion Still Missing By Mohamed Konneh A new report released by the Budget Advocacy Network (BAN) on Tuesday 27th October 2026 reveals some disturbing missing Leones amounting to NLe 1.3 Billion. With funding from the Christian Aid, the Budget Advocacy Network (BAN) briefed the media on its latest finding [...]

By Mohamed Barrie BnB Money Transfer has extended its annual Back-to-School Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative to D.E.C Islamic Primary School in Yogomaia, Kabala, donating essential educational materials to support pupils at the start of the new academic year. The donation ceremony, held on Saturday, 17th October 2026, saw selected pupils receive school bags, exercise [...]

By Mohamed Konneh The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has concluded its stakeholders’ engagement to validate the proposed stand-alone Chapter 12 on Press Freedom and Free speech in Sierra Leone’s national constitution. Media stakeholders at the engagement critically reviewed and validated the proposed chapter, describing constitutional protection for press freedom and freedom of expression [...]

By Mohamed Ismail KamaraExecutive Director, Stichting EcoProbe Africa, [email protected] I have spent years writing about the dangers closing in on Freetown. Sometimes I wondered if my words were reaching anyone. Then yesterday, at 12:23 in the afternoon, the ground trembled. Offices at Youyi Building began to sway. Workers on Waterloo Street felt their chairs move. [...]

By Mohamed Konneh A recently published social audit on how mining companies transfer revenues meant for host communities has uncovered widespread non-compliance with mining laws, weak and undemocratic governance of Community Development Committees (CDCs), and abandoned projects across four mining districts in Sierra Leone. Salieu Kamara- NMJD The report was presented by the Network Movement [...]