Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: Sidi Ould Tah of Mauritania has been elected President of the African Development Bank Group at the Bank’s Annual Meetings held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Tah was on the 29th of May, elected by the Bank’s Board of Governors, comprising Finance and Economy Ministers [Read More]
Divya Rajagopal/Reuters: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: Reuters reported last week that Barrick Mining (ABX.TO), has asked the arbitration tribunal of the World Bank to intervene in legal proceedings in Mali, as the miner faces the possibility of the Loulo-Gounkoto mine falling under the control of the Mali government. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2025: The African Development Bank (AfDB) has reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to collaborating with African civil society to advance the continent’s development agenda. This was a key message of the 2025 Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Forum, which was successfully held on Thursday, May 8, 2025, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2025: Fatima Julius Maada Bio – wife of the president of Sierra Leone, is widely regarded in the country as one of the most divisive, vindictive and insidious politicians in Sierra Leone. Her role in almost derailing the country’s hard-won peace during the last presidential [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 May 2025: ConstructAfrica, the leading platform for market intelligence, thought leadership, and news on construction and infrastructure across the African continent, has announced the formation of the ConstructAfrica Industry Advisory Board (CIAB). This newly established board brings together a distinguished group of global and African leaders [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: African leaders are advocating for a new approach to measuring the continent’s green wealth, emphasizing that current gross domestic product measures in most African countries are outdated and underestimate their true wealth. They spoke last Thursday at an event hosted by the African Union [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: To address Africa’s persistent reliance on imported refined petroleum products, which accounted for an amount of US$30billion annually in petroleum import costs due to inadequate refining, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched a US$3 Billion Revolving Intra-African Oil Trade Financing Programme to finance the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2025: The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) urges governments to call for an immediate global moratorium on deep-sea mining to send an urgent political signal defending the ocean, multilateralism, and UNCLOS, following today’s announcement by The Metals Company (TMC) USA of its application to mine [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: International organisations, creditors, and other stakeholders in the Zimbabwe arrears clearance and debt resolution unanimously acknowledged on Monday that tremendous progress has been made after two years of an extensive Structured Dialogue process but observed several challenges that need to be addressed. (Photo above: [Read More]
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