Sierra Leone Telegraph

Yumkella takes local development in Sierra Leone to another level

April 23, 2018 0

Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2018: In Sierra Leone, central government is responsible for the construction of highways and feeder roads to ensure the free movement of goods and services as well as citizens. This work is often managed by the Sierra Leone Roads Authority (SLRA) or [Read More]

Yumkella takes local development in Sierra Leone to another level

April 23, 2018 0

President Bio of Sierra Leone seeks Qatari investments

April 22, 2018 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2018: After a week of successful Commonwealth Summit in London, president Julius Maada Bio arrived in Doha, Qatar yesterday, Saturday 21st April 2018, for a state visit on the invitation of the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, says Sierra Leone’s State [Read More]

Gambian economy is recovering after sharp growth slowdown in 2016 – says IMF

April 22, 2018 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2018: Lessons for Sierra Leone. Following The Gambia’s historical transition to a democratically elected government in January 2017, the new administration led by president Barrow, has had to contend with a dire economic situation with unsustainable debt, failing State-owned Enterprises, and crowding out of the [Read More]

Brighter economic prospects for Anglo-West Africa including Sierra Leone

April 22, 2018 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2018: The economic forecast for Anglophone West Africa is looking brighter, according to analysis by Ecobank’s research team in the newly published Anglophone West Africa section of its flagship financial website. Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, is at last moving out of recession, Ghana’s growth continues [Read More]

Sierra Leone to benefit from Commonwealth Trade Finance Credit Facility

April 20, 2018 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 April 2018: Sierra Leone may benefit from a new US $100 million Commonwealth Trade Finance Credit Facility which is aimed at ensuring that smaller nations within the Commonwealth have access to global markets, says State House Communications Unit. With the economy of Sierra Leone suffering from [Read More]

SLPP needs to switch off its opposition mode

April 19, 2018 12

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2018: A serious row has broken out between the ruling SLPP and the former president of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, after the SLPP National Publicity Secretary – Lahai Lawrence Leema, yesterday accused the former president of holding a secret meeting in his home town [Read More]

African leaders are more constrained by democratic rules than you think

April 18, 2018 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2018: The view that African presidents can flout the law at will, unencumbered by constitutional or democratic constraints is well ingrained. But a new book by Nic Cheeseman, argues that this is a deeply misleading picture which underestimates Africa’s growing democratisation. This is what he [Read More]

Sierra Leone parliamentary induction – Dr. Yumkella gets warm welcome

April 18, 2018 3

Author: Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2018: Like every other newly elected Member of Parliament, Hon. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella arrived at the Tower Hill Houses of Parliament yesterday, April 17 2018 to attend an induction session hosted by the Parliamentary Service Commission in collaboration with the Westminster [Read More]

JFK Foundation donates 100 market tables to distressed Abacha Street traders

April 17, 2018 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: A charitable organisation – the JFK Foundation, which was established over five years ago by the former Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Mr Joseph Kamara and his wife Lynette Kamara, to support marginalised and vulnerable groups in Society, today brought smiles to the faces [Read More]

Sierra Leone debt sustainability – the road to deeper economic austerity

April 17, 2018 0

Author: Dr. Ezekiel Duramany-Lakkoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: International debt has implications for domestic growth. In the past decades, most developed and developing economies have adopted huge debt appetite in the process of stimulating economic growth. The United States, UK and China are no exceptions to this economic order. [Read More]

Sierra Leone rankanomics and the much-debated debt burden

April 17, 2018 2

Anthony Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: Listening to the donor briefing hosted last week by President Julius Maada Bio about the broke country he has inherited, I could not help but remember Dr. Yumkella’s many lectures as I sat with him on the campaign vehicle, his public lectures, [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s Masada Waste Management wins major award

April 17, 2018 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: The Masada Waste Transformers, a joint venture comprised of The Waste Transformers from the Netherlands and Masada Waste Management in Sierra Leone, have won the West African Forum for Climate & Clean Energy Financing (WAFCCEF-3) awards, organised by the Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN). [Read More]