By DOMINIC MORRELL Coffee developers in Sierra Leone have offered hope for climate-resilient solutions as rising temperatures and changes in rainfall threaten to wipe out more than half of the world’s coffee production. Significant progress has been achieved in a Sierra Leonean project to recultivate a historic local species better adapted to higher temperatures. Stenophylla coffee,...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The leadership of the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party has on Friday, June 30, 2023 declared that it will not participate in all the levels of governance, including the legislature and local councils, in protest against their belief that the results of the June 24 general elections had been tampered with...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana In the wake of the recently concluded June 24 elections in Sierra Leone, the Fifty-Fifty Group has on Friday, June 30, 2023 expressed serious concern with the current trend of cyber-bullying targeted at female political leaders and heads of election observer missions. The Activist Group implores the public to recognize that diverse...Read More
Police in Sierra Leone have fired tear gas at the main opposition party’s headquarters in the capital Freetown as voters await the results of a fiercely fought general election. The opposition’s presidential candidate Samura Kamara of All People’s Congress (APC) said on Twitter that live bullets had been fired at his office inside the party headquarters...Read More
By George M.O. Williams Partial results announced by the Electoral Commission Siera Leone (ECSL) on Monday put the presidential Candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Dr Julius Maada Bio on the lead in the presidential race. Bio pulled 1,067, 666 votes while his main rival Dr. Samura Kamara of the opposition All Peoples Congress...Read More
