Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2025: The World Bank Board of Directors last week approved an additional grant of $18.34 million to support Sierra Leone in enhancing biodiversity protection, environmental sustainability, and climate change resilience. This funding, provided through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) under the Global Environment Facility [Read More]

Deodat Maharaj: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing our world. It has helped a few companies in developed countries set record-breaking profits. This week, Nvidia, a leading US AI company, hit a market value of USD5 trillion. Nvidia, together with the other six technology [Read More]

John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2025: Mayor of Freetown and Co-Chair of C40 Cities, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, has arrived in Rio de Janeiro for the 2025 C40 World Mayors Summit. The event, co-hosted by Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Freetown Mayor and C40 Co-Chair, London Mayor and C40 Co-Chair Sadiq [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2025: Delta Air Lines has officially launched its first nonstop flight between Atlanta (ATL) and Marrakech (RAK), marking a historic milestone for the U.S. carrier and a significant step forward in U.S.–Morocco connectivity. Operated by a Boeing 767-400ER, the inaugural flight touched down at Marrakech [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2025: South Africa’s business leaders, technology experts, and SAP partners gathered in Johannesburg today to explore how cloud, data, and AI innovations are reshaping the enterprise landscape and unlocking new growth opportunities for businesses. Nazia Pillay, Managing Director: Southern Africa at SAP, said South African [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2025: Open Startup (OST) announces the launch of GROW 3.0, the third cohort of its flagship Investment Readiness Program designed to empower advanced African startups to scale their businesses and secure funding. Now in its third cohort, GROW reflects continuous learning and iteration. With each [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2025: Sierra Leone’s electricity supply problem is as old as the country itself. Successive governments have failed to come up with a sustainable solution to this crisis that is not only crippling the nation’s economy but affecting the delivery of safe healthcare and other vital [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2025: The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a new Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for Sierra Leone for 2025–2030, committing approximately $500 million over the next five years to foster sustainable economic growth, strengthen resilience to fragility, and promote [Read More]

Yusuf Bangura (Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2025: Very insightful piece! Trump and Biden foolishly thought the cards for global technological dominance were in US hands. They forgot that the US had long ceded to China control of the basic resources that power technological innovation in modern economies—rare earths. [Read More]