Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2019: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and West Africa Regional Stock Exchange, Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières, today signed an agreement to cooperate toward improving corporate governance practices of listed companies. Under the agreement, IFC will help BRVM design, develop, draft and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2019: If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula, says Isabella Epiu, writing in theconversation.com, after conducting a research study on the cost-effectiveness of obstetric fistula repair in the East African region. This is her report: [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2019: Entrepreneurship provides many women in Africa with an opportunity to earn an income and establish themselves in business. But they tend to start from a lower base than their male counterparts, with less start-up and investment capital, and little or no collateral security. Writing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2019: The removal of government subsidy on fuel – very often in response to IMF structural adjustment conditionalities, is one of the most controversial policy decisions any government can take in Africa. It is a decision fraught with huge political risk and has the potential [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 January 2019: New Year’s Day is always an opportunity for the president to speak to the people of Sierra Leone about the solemn promises he has made and the challenges ahead for his government. President Julius Maada Bio was elected ten months ago in a close [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2018: Sierra Leone is one of the wettest countries in sub-Sahara Africa, with 75% of the land classed as arable land, but only 20% of the land is cultivated, making the country heavily dependent on food import. Rice and palm oil are the two most [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner – Mr Francis Ben Kaifala, this week handed-in a cheque for over Seven Billion Five Hundred and Seventy-Eight Million Leones to president Julius Maada Bio at State House, after several public officials agreed to settle their corruption cases out of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s former minister of defence in the Koroma led APC government – Alfred Palo Conteh and the director general of the ministry – Sana Marah, were yesterday arrested by police and detained, following investigations by the Anti-Corruption Commission. They were both refused bail [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) policy of concentrating on seeking out of court agreement for corrupt officials to repay every single cent they have stolen, seems to be yielding good returns for the country’s taxpayer. In the past eight months, the ACC has recovered [Read More]
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