By Desmond Tunde Coker Sierra Leone senior male football team Leone Stars have been drawn alongside Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, and Djibouti in the FIFA World Cup 2026 preliminary qualifies in Group A. During the draw, the Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) divided the nine groups of six countries each based on their current FIFA ranking. However, with the total number of participating teams increasing from 32 to 48...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu The United States continues to be concerned about irregularities in the election results announced by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL), the U.S. Department of State spokesperson said in a statement on Friday. Matthew Miller said, “Independent parallel vote tabulations and analyses by accredited national and international observation missions raise questions about the integrity of the official results. We call on the government to institute...Read More
New York City-based mining company, Tresor Gold, is currently raising capital to scale its gold projects in Sierra Leone for production within 18 months, while also pursuing strategic acquisitions of critical metal projects in West Africa. The company is leveraging geotechnical data, predictive analytics and local expertise to identify areas of favourable mineralisation, and through its intelligent research of artisanal activity and soil sampling, will structure effective drilling programmes. The company says that, as an accredited US federal government contractor, it aims...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, presided by the Honourable Chief Justice, His Lordship Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has on Thursday dismissed the recusal application made by Charles Francis Margai, Solicitor and Counsel for Patrick John and the PMDC (1st and 2nd Plaintiffs) against the Hon. Chief Justice and Hon. Justice Ansumana Ivan Sesay on procedural grounds. The panel, which included the Hon. Chief Justice (JSC), Hon....Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Standard Chartered Bank and Access Bank Plc (Access) have entered into agreements for the sale of Standard Chartered’s shareholding in its subsidiaries in Angola, Cameroon, The Gambia, and Sierra Leone, and its Consumer, Private & Business Banking business in Tanzania. Each transaction remains subject to the approval of the respective local regulators and the banking regulator in Nigeria. The announcement was made on Friday, July 14,...Read More
