Patrick Sandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2020: Sierra Leone has progressed ten places upwards in Transparency International’s Global Corruption Ranking, moving from 129 in 2018, to 119 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2019 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI). (Photo above: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Czar – Francis [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2020: The UK – Africa Investment Summit is over, the leaders have returned home; and the focus now is on world leaders meeting in Davos at the World Economic Forum. But the dust is yet to settle in London, as African countries begin to count [Read More]
Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2020: Good morning everyone! It’s a pleasure to join you at this special side event organized as part of the UK-Africa Investment Summit. Let me congratulate the organizers, the Department for International Development (DFID) and Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday, assured investors at the UK-Africa Summit in London that his government is determined to diversify Sierra Leone’s economy, and guarantee a business-friendly ecosystem with a win-win outcome for potential investors. Sierra Leone is highly dependent on mineral exports, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2020: The United Kingdom’s Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport has launched a scheme to develop next generation African business start-ups. Application process is underway as government ministers and business leaders attend the first ever UK-Africa Investment Summit in London. Africa has a fast-growing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2020: Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling for the UK to be the ‘investment partner of choice’ for African countries, The UK-Africa Investment Summit in London is expected to generate new opportunities in Africa for businesses across the UK. The UK he said has unique [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio’s meeting with Antonio Rüdiger on the margins of the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London has yielded USD 101,000 (Le1 Billion) for Sierra Leone’s Free Quality Education initiative. The German professional footballer, who plays as a centre back for Premier [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2020: The President of the Republic of Ghana – Nana Akufo-Addo is leading a ministerial delegation of several Cabinet Ministers and key officials at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London today, 20 January 2020. The Summit, hosted by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson MP, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2020: The general secretariat of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the governments of the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Chad are organizing a round table in Brazzaville (Congo) on 19 [Read More]
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