Economy & Business

Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge grand prize and growth grant semifinalists, Seed Grant finalists revealed

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2025: Seeding The Future Foundation and the Institute of Food Technologists are proud to announce the Grand Prize and Growth Grant semifinalists as well as the Seed Grant finalists for the 2024 Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge. A record of nearly 1,200 submissions [Read More]

Economy & Business

ECOWAS announces Ecotour 19-29 training to enhance regional tourism policy implementation

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced the upcoming ECOTOUR 19-29 Training Support to the Implementation of Tourism Regional Policy. (Photo: Tacugama-chimpanzeee-sanctuary in Sierra Leone). This significant event underscores ECOWAS’s commitment to strengthening the tourism sector across West Africa, fostering economic [Read More]

Economy & Business

The nexus between food security, peace and stability calls for a holistic approach in policy design

Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: Food systems are defined as the networks needed to produce, transform, and distribute food to consumers. These systems encompass everything from agricultural production and supply chains to storage, transportation, and retail. (Photo above: President Bio of Sierra Leone, launching ambitious [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sub-regional development banks urged to scale up financing to accelerate Africa’s development

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The role of sub-regional multilateral development banks (MDBs) in advancing Africa’s development objectives took centre stage during a high-level panel discussion held on the sidelines of the Fifty-Seventh Session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning, and [Read More]