Economy & Business

Dr. Patricia Laverley: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2020 This article is intended to highlight the recent achievements of the African Development Bank under President Akinwunmi Adesina, underscore the need for a smooth Presidential re-election, and highlight the contributions of the Bank to COVID-19 containment efforts across Africa. The current [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2020: Leading off-grid utilities provider, Winch Energy, has unveiled the Winch Clinic, a mobile health facility fully powered by renewable energy. The new clinic has been designed to overcome the barriers of time, affordability and reliability, which can prevent vulnerable populations across the developing world from accessing [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2020: Easy Solar, the leading solar company in Sierra Leone with more than 350,000 daily users, has announced the launch of an online sales portal that enables the purchase and delivery of solar and cooking products across the country. Easy Solar’s vision is to make [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2020: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday announced that Sierra Leone is among a group of 25 poorest countries in the World to receive IMF loan repayment suspension for the next six months, to enable these countries respond to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. This decision [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020, the first recession in the region over the past 25 years, according to the latest [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2020: The High Court of Sierra Leone, sitting in Freetown and presided over by Justice Miatta Samba, yesterday  convicted the former Managing Director of Sierra Leone Cable Network (SALCAB) –  Mohamed Sheriff, and Paul Sandi – the former Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Information [Read More]

Akinwumi A. Adesina: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2020: If we do not collectively defeat the coronavirus in Africa, we will not defeat it anywhere else in the world. These are very difficult days, as the world faces one of its worst challenges ever: the novel coronavirus pandemic. And it [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2020: A special chartered flight from Brussels last night landed at the Lungi international airport in Freetown, carrying vital medicines and medical supplies valued at $130.000. The cargo weighs about 18 tons and contains critical medical products procured by UNICEF on behalf of the country’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2020: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yesterday announced the disbursement of $21.13 million to Sierra Leone, after completing its second review of the country’s economic  performance, under the program supported by the IMF’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF). This brings the total [Read More]