Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 July 2018: Last Sunday, 1st July, President Julius Maada Bio signed the African Continental Free Trade Agreement at the 31st Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Freetown State House media reports. The African Continental Free Trade Agreement was tabled by the Legal [Read More]
Dr. Kandeh Yumkella: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2018: Reports reaching the NGC indicate that President Maada Bio has ordered the temporary lifting of the ban imposed some weeks ago on the export of timber from our country. When the President imposed the temporary ban, the NGC applauded his move [Read More]
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]
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