Economy & Business

Ahead of COP30, Africa champions new approach to measuring green wealth and incentivizing climate action

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: African leaders are advocating for a new approach to measuring the continent’s green wealth, emphasizing that current gross domestic product measures in most African countries are outdated and underestimate their true wealth. They spoke last Thursday at an event hosted by the African Union [Read More]

Economy & Business

Afreximbank launches US$3 Billion revolving Intra-African Oil Import Financing programme

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: To address Africa’s persistent reliance on imported refined petroleum products, which accounted for an amount of US$30billion annually in petroleum import costs due to inadequate refining, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched a US$3 Billion Revolving Intra-African Oil Trade Financing Programme to finance the [Read More]

Economy & Business

Rogue industry actions signal urgent need to strengthen global governance through a moratorium on deep-sea mining

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) urges governments to call for an immediate global moratorium on deep-sea mining to send an urgent political signal defending the ocean, multilateralism, and UNCLOS, following today’s announcement by The Metals Company (TMC) USA of its application to mine [Read More]

Politics & Law

Freetown Mayor reflects on Sierra Leone’s journey at 64th Independence Anniversary symposium

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, on Monday April 28, 2025, called for people-centered leadership while delivering the opening reflections at the Salone Day National Symposium, marking Sierra Leone’s 64th Independence Anniversary. The event, organized by the Ministry of Information and Civic Education, was attended [Read More]

Economy & Business

Stakeholders acknowledge progress with Zimbabwe arrears clearance dialogue, call for more effort and support

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: International organisations, creditors, and other stakeholders in the Zimbabwe arrears clearance and debt resolution unanimously acknowledged on Monday that tremendous progress has been made after two years of an extensive Structured Dialogue process but observed several challenges that need to be addressed. (Photo above: [Read More]