Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, in collaboration with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), yesterday, 12 October 2026, commenced a workshop in Accra, Ghana to advance the implementation of the ECOWAS Inter-Institutional Communication Strategy and the ECOWAS Institutions Information [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: The Principal Secretary for ICT and the Digital Economy, Eng. John Kipchumba Tanui, CBS, has called for stronger partnerships between industry and academia to equip Kenya’s youth with practical, market-relevant skills that respond to the demands of a rapidly evolving economy. Eng. Tanui made [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: On September 8, 2026, Aurion Capital Holdings, an American investment holding group with offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gabonese Republic and the Société d’Énergie et d’Eau du Gabon (SEEG), Gabon’s national water and electricity utility, for the development of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: Cameroon’s Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development – Professor FUH CALISTUS Gentry, met last Friday with Mrs Maria van der Hoeven, Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board, to advocate for the lifting of Cameroon’s suspension. Held on the sidelines of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: Hundreds of millions of dollars planned investments to Sierra Leone by foreign companies, may now be at risk as the European Union (EU) this week decides to halt its financial aid to the country. The EU’s decision comes following President Bio’s reluctance to extradite [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: The new Regional Energy Governance and Information System in West Africa (REGIS-WA) kicked -off with a workshop, marking a decisive step towards harmonizing regional energy governance, reinforcing data architecture, and accelerating cross-border clean energy integration across West Africa. The project implemented under the Directorate [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: Africa must stop sending its capital abroad and start investing in its own industrial future, Aliko Dangote, President and CEO of Dangote Group, told global business leaders at Unstoppable Africa 2026 yesterday, as he set out an ambitious vision for African industrialization backed by [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: The inaugural Alamein Africa Forum will take place from October 2-4 in the historic city of Alamein on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast in parallel with the 2026 African Union mid-year summit. Established in response to a mandate from the African Union, which called for a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is strengthening power infrastructure along the Lobito Corridor, a strategic logistics route in Central and Southern Africa vital to diversifying America’s critical minerals supply chains. (Photo above: L – R Thomas R. Hardy, USTDA Deputy Director and Brian [Read More]