Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2018: The Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, but the legacy of more than two decades of authoritarian rule has left its new democratically elected government with big challenges. The Gambia’s Finance Minister, Amadou Sanneh, began the daunting task of rebuilding its devastated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2018: Ongoing improvement in East Africa’s economic prospects is forecast by Ecobank’s research team in the newly published East Africa section of its flagship financial website, AfricaFICC. Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are the regions’ economic powerhouses and are enjoying a period of significant economic [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 June 2018: Sierra Leone is one of the wettest countries in the world with more rainfall in just six months than many countries would experience in a decade. Yet, successive governments have found it difficult to harness the rainfall for the survival of its people, especially [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 June 2018: Ireland has and continues to play a crucial role in supporting Sierra Leone’s economic and social development efforts, since the end of a brutal ten-year civil war, which took the lives of over one hundred thousand people. With a new elected government at State [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2018: Last week was a busy schedule for Sierra Leone’s head of the National Commission for Privatisation – Mr. Umaru Napoleon Koroma, who visited the Lungi International Airport and the Water Quay seaport in Freetown, to gain full insight into how they are both being [Read More]
Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: When the former government and Parliament of Sierra Leone decided to pass into law the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Finance Acts that specifically insisted on enforcing the country’s Local Content Policy, it was because this policy was established to boost the economy. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: The Freetown City Council (FCC) yesterday reported it has started implementing its flood mitigation plan, designed to reduce flooding in the city and reduce humanitarian, health and economic impact on residents, as the rainy season sets in. Sierra Leone, the council says, is noted [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2018: One serious criticism that was constantly levied at former president Koroma was his huge appetite for signing MoUs (memorandum of understanding) that yielded very little for the country. And now it seems the newly elected president Julius Maada Bio cannot resist the virus. There [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s economic activity has picked up since elections in March 2018, says the IMF. But the newly elected government of president Julius Maada Bio is running the country’s finances on a shoestring budget, mainly cutting back on spending in some areas of expenditure [Read More]
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