Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18th February 2019: As part Freetown City Council’s (FCC’s) Transform Freetown Sanitation Initiatives, 500 fixed street bins are being installed on key streets across the city. The street bin installation process started on 23rd January, the eve of the Transform Freetown Forum and will continue over the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2019: The government of Sierra Leone has been losing millions of dollars in revenue  every year from the country’s sea port at Water Quay in Freetown, because of corrupt government officials and crooked company executives. This too has robbed thousands of well-meaning citizens that are [Read More]

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2019: Millions of peasant farmers in the rural areas of Sierra Leone do not own land of their own but have to rent from land owning families. Added to their poverty is the fact that they depend on Shylock money lenders to secure [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2019: Sierra Leone Mining Company Ltd., is taking the lead in a new phase of mining explosion in Sierra Leone at the Marampa iron ore mines, where the country’s speaker of parliament – Dr Abass Bundu, paid a visit to gain first-hand experience of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2019: Last Tuesday, Sierra Leone’s vice president – Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh launched the country’s new tourism promotion brochure – a highly colourful and glossy publication, called the ‘Tourism In-Flight Traveltainment Magazine’. Tuesday’s launch of the Tourism In-Flight Traveltainment Magazine also marked the opening of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: There is a saying: ‘If you want to tackle corruption successfully, then get the accountants on board’. President Bio is doing just that. Last week, the Institute of Chartered Accountants Sierra Leone (ICASL), met with president Julius Maada Bio at State House, where they [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: The Executive Chairman of the Environment Protection Agency, Sierra Leone, Prof. Foday Moriba Jaward, last week met with officials of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in a move to establish a strong partnership between the two institutions. The meeting took place in the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Ghana rolls out the red carpet to encourage resettlement in the motherland. In Washington, D.C., in September 2018, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo declared and formally launched the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in the Diaspora, giving fresh impetus to the quest to [Read More]

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Freetown City Council has installed street rubbish collection bins across the capital Freetown, to help combat the problem of waste collection and disposal. Speaking on Radio Democracy FM 98, Mayor Aki-Sawyer said garbage collectors will be collecting garbage from houses and take [Read More]