Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2018: Climate change is hitting Sierra Leone very hard. Recent tragic disasters, caused by heavy rains in the capital Freetown – especially last year’s deadly mudslide in Regent, which took the lives of over a thousand people, leaving thousands homeless is more than a wakeup [Read More]
Alhassan Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2018: The Global Rise for Climate Day was celebrated in Sierra Leone on 8th September, 2018, with the coming together of seventy-two people from the Waterloo Rural District in attendance, as well as pupils from five schools and representatives of various institutions from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2018: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Consultant – Tim Strawson, who is currently looking at the development of a national financing framework for Sierra Leone’s National Development Plan, on Friday 19th October held discussions with the Director of the Office of Diaspora Affairs (ODA). [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2018: The World Bank says there’s reason to be optimistic: the globe has reached its “lowest poverty rate in recorded history”. But, writing in theconversation.com this week, Alf Gunvald Nilsen suggests that caution is necessary, and that it’s crucial to move beyond rhetoric when discussing [Read More]
Sunil Kaushal: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2018: We are fortunate to witness a period of monumental progress in Africa. The changes are visible across all sectors. African start-ups have raised a record breaking $560 million in 2017, an increase of 53% from the previous year. African governments have welcomed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2018: Today marks World Food Day. For the third year in a row the number of people going hungry in the world has increased. By some estimates, over 800 million people don’t have enough to eat every day. Many live in Africa. So what are [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2018: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) is pleased to announce the launch of the 12th annual Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), taking place on Monday 29 October 2018, when the results and analysis will be shared with the public at mo.ibrahim.foundation. To mark the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2018: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance – Jacob Jusu Saffa today 11th October 2018 signed a $40 million agreement with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, for the installation of a 50MW Solar plant in Sierra Leone. It all started at the African Development Bank [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2018: After six months of uncertainty as to whether the newly elected government of Sierra Leone, led by president Julius Maada Bio (Photo), may decide to resuscitate the much criticised Mamamah airport construction project established by the outgoing APC government, came a letter few days [Read More]
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