The Sierra Leone Telegraph

An AI filmmaking programme for African creators has opened in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa. Akuna Learning, from The Akuna Group, chaired by Sir Idris Elba, today opened applications for From Script to Screen with AI, a free programme that equips

Target Malaria: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2026: When nine-year-old James Ssemambo developed severe malaria in Kitosi, a village located in Koome Sub County in Mukono district in Uganda, the illness affected far more than his physical health. His mother, Sarah Nankya, spent three days with him at a health

Proceedings have resumed this morning at Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court in Freetown, where laywers for the government and the opposition All Peoples’ Congress Party (APC), respectively, are making arguments about the recent decision of the country’s Speaker of parliament to declare that a vote

Saidu Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: On 11th October 2026, I walked into the Pademba Road prison with a broken spirit. My boss Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Sierra Leone’s former attorney-general & minister of justice, had spent his fourth night behind bars, and despite my repeated visits, the reality

John Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: Sierra Leone has begun the final 50-day countdown to its 2026 Population and Housing Census, with government officials and development partners calling for nationwide participation in the country’s first fully digital enumeration exercise. The countdown was launched at the Miatta Civic Centre

The unfortunate events of 7 and 8 October 2026, involving the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Justice Komba Kamanda, and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK), during the Supreme Court proceedings concerning the Constitutional Amendment Bill, raise fundamental questions about

The Chief of Staff, ECOWAS Standby Force (COS ESF), Brigadier General Sheikh Massaquoi and the Commander, ECOWAS Logistics Depot (ELD), Lungi (Photo above), Navy Captain Idenyi Jude Akpa, accompanied by staff officers of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) and the Peace Support Operations Division

As we celebrate Black History Month here in the UK, today we honour a remarkable Sierra Leonean, living and working in London. She is Adama Nyama Bah. By any measure, Adama Nyama Bah has lived a remarkable life. Born in Kabala, the headquarters of

There was drama at Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court yesterday, as the senior lawyer for the country’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party – Barrister Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK) who himself is a former Attorney-General, was asked by the Chief Justice – Komba Kamanda

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: In 2002, shortly after Sierra Leone emerged from a devastating civil war and began the difficult work of rebuilding its democracy, 494 registered civil society organizations formed the National Election Watch (NEW). Its mission was both ambitious and essential: to monitor,

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: Sierra Leone has never lacked brilliant people. Our deeper failure has been our inability to build institutions that can multiply that brilliance. (Photo: Dr Davidson Nicol was the first black African elected as a Fellow of a Cambridge college – a

Hundreds of millions of dollars planned investments to Sierra Leone by foreign companies, may now be at risk as the European Union (EU) this week decides to halt its financial aid to the country. The EU’s decision comes following President Bio’s reluctance to extradite

Members of the global Sierra Leonean community can submit nominations across 12 distinct categories celebrating impact across sectors. Investor of the Year Recognizes the highest verifiable capital deployed into local, job-creating ventures in Sierra Leone. Returnee Trailblazer Honors returnees who have built and sustained