Economy & Business

Inclusive governance and regional focus will help drive Africa’s industrialization

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2020: Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki (Photo above) is the CEO of the African Union Development Agency – New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD). He spoke to Africa Renewal’s Kingsley Ighobor on the African Union-United Nations partnership, COVID-19 response, Africa’s development and other issues. These [Read More]

Politics & Law

SilencingTheGuns – 7 African countries ramp up efforts to collect illegal firearms

UN Office for Disarmament Affairs: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2020: Seven African countries are currently completing efforts to collect illegally held weapons as part of a continent-wide annual amnesty period. (Photo: Weapons destruction in the Central African Republic during the September Africa Amnesty Month. Photo Credit: UNODA). This follows [Read More]

Politics & Law

LEOCEM pays one billion Leones to Anti-Corruption Commission for electricity theft

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today announced that it has received ONE BILLION LEONES (LE 1,000,000,000.00) from the Sierra Leone Cement Corporation (LEOCEM), “as settlement for issues relating to unmetered electricity abstraction from the National Grid of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA).” This [Read More]