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the continent’s green wealth, emphasizing that current gross domestic product measures in most African countries are outdated and underestimate their true wealth.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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is showing some resilience despite uncertainty in the global economy and restricted fiscal space. Regional growth is expected to reach 3.5% in 2025 and further accelerate to 4.3% in 2026-2027, according to the latest edition of Africa’s Pulse, published [Read More]
Dr Yusuf Bangura (Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: US President Trump is viscerally opposed to foreign aid. As a transactionalist, he believes that there should be immediate returns to himself or the US for whatever money or favours he dispenses. He doesn’t believe in soft power. Indeed, his [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded its latest mission to Sierra Leone this April 2025 with troubling findings, troubling, but not surprising to those of us who have been watching the direction of this government. This time, the IMF reportedly suspended [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2025: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has announced its strongest financial performance to date, with total revenue for the year ended 31 December 2024 surpassing US$ 1 billion for the first time in the Corporation’s history. (Photo above: Samaila Zubairu [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2025: Under the theme “Positioning for Opportunity”, Nairobi’s premier real estate event brings global investors and developers together to shape East Africa’s economic landscape. As a proudly Pan-African business with key interests in positively shaping economic policy and investments, Absa CIB has proudly, once again [Read More]
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