Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit. Writing in theconversation.com, Lenore Manderson warns: “Developed economies are able to reduce environmental health risks through improved infrastructure, legal interventions and education. But the [Read More]

Alfred Fornah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2019: Professor Pieter Bon, an educational psychologist and Chairman of the Academy for Sustainable Development in the Netherlands, last week delivered a series of public lectures on Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGS) at five tertiary educational institutions in Freetown. The public lecture series [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2019: Joule Africa Limited, the company responsible for developing Sierra Leone’s Bumbuna hydroelectricity phase two development has received $3.5 million from the European Union’s Electrification Financing Initiative (Electrifi), towards the cost of carrying out work that could see a massive increase in power output from [Read More]

Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2019: Since Sierra Leone gained her independence in 1961, one of the many sectors that have been unceremoniously dumped and left to die and decay is tourism. And to know that there are many less endowed countries that almost entirely depend on tourism [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2019: Vice president of Sierra Leone – Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, last Wednesday launched a new National Corporate Governance Code that will guide and improve the way businesses are governed in the country, through transparency and accountability. The document was launched at the Bintumani International [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 January 2019: Whenever you have a change in government, the new leaders get saddled with the problem of absorbing large masses of people into jobs in the overburdened public sector. Inevitably this involves removing people from positions and replacing them with their own supporters. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2019: The World Bank is on the hunt for a new president. Writing in theconversation.com, Danny Bradlow says that despite calls for the best candidate to be selected regardless of nationality, whoever takes over the World Bank will inevitably be an American. But that shouldn’t [Read More]

Trevor Jenkins Johnston and Abdul Rashid Thomas: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2019: Sierra Leone’s Auditor General has published her report into the country’s public finances and how it was managed by the previous Koroma-led APC government in 2017, before they lost the general and presidential elections in March 2018. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 January 2019: Last Wednesday, 9th January 2019   – A special task-force set up by the Sierra Leone government to investigate industrial unrest at the Sierra Rutile Mining Company, and make recommendations regarding relationship between workers and the company, presented its findings and recommendations to president Julius [Read More]