Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 August 2018: Innovators across Sierra Leone are being encouraged to send application to enter a competition, which will see millions of Leones in prize money being won by successful candidates. The call for application is part of the Africa Science Week initiative, targeting innovators with sound [Read More]

Development Pathfinders LLC: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 August 2018: An Africa-focused development think tank – Development Pathfinders, in collaboration with several co-sponsors, including the Metropolitan College of New York and the United African Congress is organizing an investment conference on Sierra Leone. The event is scheduled to take place on [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 August 2018: Newly appointed Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone – Professor Kelfala Morana Kallon, whose appointment by president Bio is yet to be approved by parliament, is under no illusion about the enormity of the task ahead. Sierra Leone’s currency – the Leone has [Read More]

Emmanuel I. Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2018: The newly appointed Commissioner General of the National Revenue Authority (NRA), Dr. Samuel Jibao last Thursday, 16th August 2018, told reporters that under his administration as Commissioner General, NRA raises an average of fifty-one billion Leones in taxes every two days. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2018: On her first visit to the West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire, Canada’s Minister of International Development – Marie-Claude Bibeau and the President of the African Development Bank – Akinwumi Adesina, shared a common vision and commitment to the advancement of women and girls [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2018: Just over a year ago, 18th July 2017, parliament of Sierra Leone, unanimously approved the appointment of Dr. Patrick Saidu Conteh by president Koroma, as the new Bank Governor of Sierra Leone, following the resignation of his predecessor, Dr. Kaifala Marah. Today, Dr. Patrick [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2018: Why is it that despite Africa’s vast natural resources and the recipient of tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid every year, the eradication of poverty remains an illusion? As Mia Perry a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, concludes in theconversation.com: [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2018: The President of Ghana and Co-Chair of the Group of Eminent Advocates for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has launched a pan-African award for a new generation of early stage social innovators in Africa, who are solving pressing problems in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2018: Canadian Minister of International Development Marie-Claude Bibeau held discussions yesterday with Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Alie Kabba, in Freetown. The Canadian international development minister was in Freetown to renew Canada’s relationship with Sierra Leone, as part of Canada’s [Read More]