Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2020: The African Development Fund has approved a $34.74 million grant and loan to boost renewable energy access and promote an attractive investment climate in Liberia. At a signing ceremony on 29 January in Monrovia, Dr. Orison Amu, the African Development Bank’s Country Manager in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2020: Angolan government reforms in the country’s oil sector, including at national oil company SONANGOL are already yielding positive results, with 30 percent of the company set to be privatized by 2022. Angola’s sector reforms are to be backed up by an investment campaign drive [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has today said that while the country is now open to specific partnerships that would support the integration of mining-related training and harness mining-specific technology to create innovation hubs that would guarantee the country’s strategic education [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2020: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources – Foday Rado Yokie, told reporters last week that reviewing the government’s agreements with mining companies and the Mines and Minerals Act of 2009, is aimed at ensuring that the people of Sierra Leone benefit from [Read More]
Sam D Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 February 2020: It is not wrong, per se, to run a country as a business because the aim of any business is to maximize profits; but it is yet that same aim which set high expectations amongst Sierra Leoneans of a possibility to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 February 2020: Today, Africa is seen as one of the most promising regions for hotel developers. Aside from small chains and independents, four global hotel groups dominate signings and openings on the continent. Over the last four rolling quarters, as of September 2019, Accor, Hilton, Marriott [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 February 2020: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance in collaboration with the Bank of Sierra Leone, Statistics Sierra Leone and the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation last Thursday launched the Sierra Leone Economic Data Analytics website. The website was launched by Deputy Minister of Finance – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 January 2020: For the first time in a decade, investment expenditure rather than consumption, accounts for more than half of Africa’s GDP growth, according to the Africam Economic Outlook Report published today by the African Development Bank in Ivory Coast . The report calls for urgent [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2020: The economy of The Gambia is losing 3.96 billion Gambian Dalasi (US$83 million) a year – about 5.1 percent of the country’s annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), due to the effects of child undernutrition, according to a new study released in Banjul today. The [Read More]
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