The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2013 Sierra Leone’s economy is classed amongst a group of ten African economies, whose annual growth rates have far exceeded the continent’s average of 4%. This is largely the result of recent increase in Foreign Direct investments (FDI) and export revenue. However, there are [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2013 African countries are gradually coming to the realization that they cannot continue to marginalize and ignore the economic potential of two-thirds of their population – women. Although the reality for most of Africa is that women have for centuries acted as the invisible [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2013 The pervasive fear of violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections contradicts political leaders’ rhetorical commitments to peace, and raises concerns that the country may not be ready to go to the polls. Zimbabwe: Election Scenarios, the latest briefing from the International Crisis [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2013 There is something disturbing about the way the Koroma led APC government of Sierra Leone makes decisions about spending. And the impact of that decision making process on the country’s parliamentary democracy and the fight against corruption is enormous. When a finance minister [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2013 Yenga is a potentially mineral rich territory belonging to Sierra Leone, which the despotic regime of Guinea has annexed and claimed ownership, for over a decade. Playing a silly game of ‘finders – keepers’, successive governments in Conakry, have shown nothing but disrespect [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2013 Sierra Leonean born Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) – Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, spoke in Washington DC last Saturday, as Sierra Leoneans across the world, celebrated the country’s 52nd independence anniversary. Sierra Leone is rich in natural resources, but [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2013 The people of Sierra Leone are today marking 52 years of independence from Britain. But with economic hardship and massive unemployment – estimated at over 70% of the economically active population, this year’s celebration is a quiet affair. Despite deafening government propaganda that [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 April 2013 Dennis Kabatto Reigning Miss Sierra Leone USA 2013 – Ruby B. Johnson leaves the United States of America Thursday to take part in Saturday’s independence ceremony. While in Sierra Leone she will visit school girls at all levels in order to promote her [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2013 Report from the World Bank says that its Development Committee last Saturday endorsed the Bank’s goal to end extreme poverty within a generation as “ambitious”. It says that this endeavour by the Bank is an “historic opportunity” to make a difference. The Committee [Read More]
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