Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2018: The African Development Bank Group has extended a loan of €84 million to Cameroon to support livestock and fish production in the central African country, in line with the Bank’s strategies to create jobs and raise household incomes. The loan, approved by the Bank’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2018: The partnership between Orange and MainOne Company will provide for the construction and installation of two new branches and stations Orange and MainOne Cable Company are pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement allowing for a major investment by Orange in the [Read More]

Anthony Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 September 2018: Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella, Member of Sierra Leone’s Parliament for Constituency 062 – Samu Chiefdom, and Chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, left the shores of Freetown yesterday, Thursday, for New York to participate as a [Read More]

Mousa E. Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2018: A female farmer in constituency 101, Pujehun district – Madam Hawa Bangali Kallon (alias Akpajie), has called on the government and other development partners to help her farming organization to embark on mechanized farming. The call came as her farming group [Read More]

Mousa E. Massaquoi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2018: Lack of access to potable water in the Bo district is not news anymore. For many years, residents have had to learn how to live without clean drinking water. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, many promises were [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2018: Beijing’s cumulative loans to Africa since 2000 amounted to $124-billion by 2016, according to figures compiled by the China-Africa Research Initiative (CARI). Djibouti is projected to take on public debt worth around 88 percent of the country’s overall $1.72 billion GDP, with China owning [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2018: The Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), Dr. Sidi Ould Tah, held a meeting this week with president Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown, where he told the  President that the bank will support his government [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2018: President Julius Maada Bio wooed investors at the opening ceremony of the 4th Investing in Africa Forum held in Changsha, Hunan Province, where he told business leaders that Sierra Leone is now open for Business. Addressing hundreds of participants across Africa, China, Europe, United [Read More]

Abu Bakarr Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2018: Kissy Industry and Trading Limited is currently under construction, thereby leading the way to boosting the country’s manufacturing and export sector, according to report. Owned and managed by a popular businessman, Jamal Shallop, construction work on the boiler, margarine manufacturing plants, [Read More]