Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2019: At least 2,000 Sierra Leonean youths facing chronic unemployment or underemployment will receive market-driven vocational training over the next three years, under a project funded by the Government of Japan. “IOM has a long-standing experience addressing issues related to youth, migration and employment,” said Sanusi [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2019: Yesterday, Monday 8 April 2019, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone held talks with a high-level official delegation from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), following his visit last month to the Arabian Peninsula nation. The President of UAE, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2019: Last Friday 5th April 2019, the government of Sierra Leone received almost $40 million (US$ 39,670,774) in grant-aid as direct budget support from the World Bank, under the Bank’s Productivity and Transparency Support Grant Programme. This is equivalent to Le 341.6 billion. This much [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2019: Sierra Mineral Holdings 1 Limited (Vimetco), a bauxite mining company in Moyamba, Sierra Leone held several meetings last week with the country’s Ministries of Finance and Mines in Freetown, to discuss the company’s expansion plans which will involve the construction of a value-adding alumina [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2019: Following a recent televised BBC documentary which shows China’s fishing fleet taking advantage of weak and porous monitoring systems in Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone has this week passed a moratorium on all industrial fishing along its waters. The BBC documentary – [Read More]

Cyril Barnes: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2019: About a year ago the people of Sierra Leone decided to vote for the Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio as president, making him the fifth democratically elected President of the small mineral-rich West African nation. Dubbed the ‘actualization of a dream too [Read More]

Sierra Leone Anti-corruption Commission: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2019: Following report from the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) and the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) on alleged misappropriation of IFRC funds, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) carried out forensic investigations into funds remitted by the IFRC to [Read More]

Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2019: Not a single minute to spare; no time to stop and rest; no room for personal pleasure or laid-back leisure. Those three phrases could somehow neatly fit in as an appropriate description of the tightly packed schedule of a tireless diplomatic mission [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s minister of agriculture and forestry, Mr. Joseph Jonathan Ndanema, yesterday launched an induction programme for beneficiaries of the Agribusiness Services  Matching Grant (ASMG). The grant support is coordinated by the Small Holder Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project (SCADeP) and supervised by the [Read More]