Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2019: The cost of flying to sierra Leone is expected to fall by as much as fifteen percent early next year, if the country’s parliamentarians approve the government’s 2020 Budget statement tabled in parliament last Friday, by finance minister – Jacob Jusu Saffa. Presenting his [Read More]

Campaign for Good Governance: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2019: Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) is seriously concerned about the unnecessary strain the cabinet reshuffle will cause on the country’s already bloated public service wage bill and the economy; especially at a time when ordinary Sierra Leoneans are grappling to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2019 Yesterday, 8 November 2019, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance – Jacob Jusu Saffa  laid out his budget plans and spending forecasts to parliamentarians, which the government says is designed to tackle poverty and relieve the economic suffering of people in the country. He called [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 November 2019: As concerns grow across the country about the state of the economy of Sierra Leone, with rising food prices and falling value of the Leone, the executives of Sierra Leone’s opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party, has today broken silence. This morning the NGC [Read More]

Patricia Scotland – Commonwealth Secretary-General: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2019: Our world seems to be changing faster than ever – technologically, environmentally, socially – and in so many other ways. It is hard for any of us to keep up with the astonishing pace and scale of developments and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2019: The newly appointed Chief of Mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to Sierra Leone, Ms. Karen Ongley, and her Resident Representative, Dr Monique Newiak, yesterday met president Bio at State House in Freetown, where they discussed a new partnership aimed at addressing the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 November 2019: Yesterday, a delegation from the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone, donated 20 solar-street lightings and fittings, as well as smaller indoor and outdoor solar lightings to the Freetown City Council (FCC) to help ease electricity difficulties faced by residents across the capital. The items [Read More]

Memuna Forna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2019: It was 8am on Friday, 1st November 2019 at the Bintumani Conference Centre, and there was an immediate sense that here was a different type of event – energetic, polished, witty and tech savvy, with a clever layering of showbiz. This was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 November 2019: Sierra Leone is classed as one of the poorest nations on earth, and possibly also one of the most corrupt in Africa. This has to change, and president Bio it seems is in a hurry to do just that. With hundreds of millions of [Read More]