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Freetown, Western Area · Freetown

Synthetic drugs are having devastating effects around the world, from Sierra Leone to the UK

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In the blistering heat of Freetown, Sierra Leone, young men gather on street corners, their limbs swollen, eyes glazed. They are the victims of kush, a cheap and deadly synthetic drug sweeping the country. But kush is not an isolated tragedy. From the townships of apartheid South Africa to the 21st-century streets of the UK, synthetic drugs have a long history of flourishing in places where society has abandoned its most vulnerable. Kush first a…Read Article

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SLPP’s One country One people motto unravels as First Lady is rattled by outgoing party chairman Prince Harding and Yousef Keketoma Sandi

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2025: The people of Sierra Leone are looking on with dismay, as the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party’s motto – ‘One Country One People’ begins to unravel, following a dramatic, uncouth, and disrespectful display of SLPP members of parliament and the First Lady, at last Thursday’s State Opening of Parliament. The drama began when the First Lady – Fatima Bio was entering the chamber to a call by the Sergeant-at-…See the Story

Freetown, Western Area · Freetown

Has The SLPP Thrown Down The Gauntlet Of Unity To The Opposition APC Party? – Cocorioko

Has The SLPP Thrown Down The Gauntlet Of Unity To The Opposition APC Party? The Sierra Leone People’s Party recently concluded its 14thNational Delegates Convention in Freetown. This was preceded by regional elections that did not fare without its own catalogue of controversies. A recent social media post by The First Lady left a lot of insinuations bordering on the suspicion of fraud and lack of clarity and transparency of the process. In the v…Read Article

Has the SLPP thrown down the gauntlet of unity to the opposition APC Party? Op ed

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) recently concluded its 14th National Delegates Convention in Freetown. This was preceded by regional elections that did not fare without its own catalogue of controversies. A recent social media post by The First Lady left a lot of insinuations bordering on the suspicion of fraud and lack of clarity and transparency of the process. In the video clip, …Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

The President of Sierra Leone Calls for a Dialogue with the Sahel Alliance, the Medea Desert.

The President of Sierra Leone, Julius Mada Pyo, the new regular Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Tuesday, called for a resumption of dialogue with the Sahel Alliance countries that withdrew from the regional bloc earlier this year. Pew's invitation came during his meeting with the Chairman of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alio Touré, at the presidential palace in Freetown, where he stressed the importance of a …Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

Sierra Leone – cry the wounded country – Part One

Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: It was inevitable. This fall from grace, our descent into the whirlpool of amorality, after our independence from colonialism. It was inevitable that we would allow the best inherited virtues, institutions and laws to collapse, after they fell into the hands of those who, by some acts of chicanery, managed to come to political power, and then wasted no time showing their true intentions of…Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

A Man's 30-Year Struggle to Save Sierra Leone's Orphaned Chimpanzees

Sierra Leone. Bala Amarasekaran never thought that managing his well-known sanctuary for orphans in Sierra Leone was really a job, to which he arrived after several twists of fate. At the Sanctuary for Tacugama Chimpanzees, located in a national park not far from the capital, Freetown, caresses the nose and cheeks of a young ape, whispering words of encouragement. - By accident - 64-year-old Amarasekaran and training accountant, he never imagine…Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

Osman Yansaneh and Maada Bio, you can’t fake reality : We want genuine reconciliation , not surrender to Bio’s depravities – Cocorioko

INSINCERE YOKING, HANDSHAKES AND PHOTO-OPS CANNOT DISGUISE REALITY: WE WANT GENUINE RECONCILIATION , NOT TACIT SURRENDER By Kabs Kanu We want genuine reconciliation between SLPP and APC . If the possibility ever exists for both the SLPP and APC to put aside past grievances and wrongs and begin working together with shared commitments and objectives to move our nation forward, such a gesture must be hailed to the high heavens by all citizens. Aft…Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

Diocesan Priests in Sierra Leone Urged to Pay Attention to Emotional Wellbeing amid Unavoidable Distress

Members of the Clergy at Sierra Leone’s Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown have been encouraged to seek regular medical checkups to keep their physical and mental health in check. Facilitators at a workshop that was organized in Freetown on the theme “The Emotional Toll of being a Priest” noted that Priests, more than any other people, suffer burnout and emotional exhaustion in their vocation that entails “living the Cross.” Speaking to ACI Africa…Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

More than 5,000 Cases, 46 deaths... in This Country, the Mpox Epidemic Explodes and the Authorities Warn Against the Spread

The number of cases of Mpox in Sierra Leone has reached 5,009 since January, including 46 deaths, according to an official report published on Wednesday, 30 July. Nearly 2,800 cases have been recorded in Freetown, where the authorities...Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

“Access to internet should be a basic human right”: Minister Salima Bah on Sierra Leone’s tech ambition

When I spoke to Sierra Leone’s Minister of Communication, Technology, and Innovation, Salima Bah, last February, the ministry she led was less than a year old, and the country’s ambitions, though bold, were still largely on paper. “We are willing to learn how others have done it; we aren’t inventing the wheel,” she said at the time. Eighteen months on, the country has walked the talk. In that time, the government has invested more than $132 mill…Freetown, Western Area · Freetown Read Article

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Synthetic drugs are having devastating effects around the world, from Sierra Leone to the UK

SLPP’s One country One people motto unravels as First Lady is rattled by outgoing party chairman Prince Harding and Yousef Keketoma Sandi

Has The SLPP Thrown Down The Gauntlet Of Unity To The Opposition APC Party? – Cocorioko

Has the SLPP thrown down the gauntlet of unity to the opposition APC Party? Op ed

The President of Sierra Leone Calls for a Dialogue with the Sahel Alliance, the Medea Desert.

Sierra Leone – cry the wounded country – Part One

A Man's 30-Year Struggle to Save Sierra Leone's Orphaned Chimpanzees

Osman Yansaneh and Maada Bio, you can’t fake reality : We want genuine reconciliation , not surrender to Bio’s depravities – Cocorioko

Diocesan Priests in Sierra Leone Urged to Pay Attention to Emotional Wellbeing amid Unavoidable Distress

More than 5,000 Cases, 46 deaths... in This Country, the Mpox Epidemic Explodes and the Authorities Warn Against the Spread

“Access to internet should be a basic human right”: Minister Salima Bah on Sierra Leone’s tech ambition

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Has the SLPP thrown down the gauntlet of unity to the opposition APC Party? Op ed

The President of Sierra Leone Calls for a Dialogue with the Sahel Alliance, the Medea Desert.

Sierra Leone – cry the wounded country – Part One

A Man's 30-Year Struggle to Save Sierra Leone's Orphaned Chimpanzees

Osman Yansaneh and Maada Bio, you can’t fake reality : We want genuine reconciliation , not surrender to Bio’s depravities – Cocorioko

Diocesan Priests in Sierra Leone Urged to Pay Attention to Emotional Wellbeing amid Unavoidable Distress

More than 5,000 Cases, 46 deaths... in This Country, the Mpox Epidemic Explodes and the Authorities Warn Against the Spread

“Access to internet should be a basic human right”: Minister Salima Bah on Sierra Leone’s tech ambition