Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2018: Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report detailing progress and pathways to liming global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Responding to the report, Mr. Apollos Nwafor, Pan Africa Director of Oxfam International said: “Climate change has set our planet on fire, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2018: Entrepreneurship is central to Africa’s economic growth and is one of the keys to unlocking job opportunities for young people across the continent. Mastercard Foundation in partnership with the African Leadership Academy (ALA) (AfricanLeadershipAcademy.org) is pleased to announce that 20 of Africa’s youngest and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2018: AccorHotels – the world’s leading travel and lifestyle group, has announced a record year of development in Africa. The company made this announcement at the African Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) in Nairobi. Beginning with its 50% stake in the Mantis Group in April, followed [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2018: The Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences including Climate Change (PAUWES) celebrated the third graduating class of both the engineering and policy tracks of its Masters programmes in Water and Energy. The graduating class made up of 79 students from across [Read More]

Efam Awo Dovi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2018: Ken Ukaoha knows something about infrastructure and intra-Africa trade. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Kenaux International Concept, a shoe and garment manufacturing company based in Aba, southeast Nigeria. Kenaux’s products sell in Nigeria and other African countries, [Read More]

Richard Munang & Robert Mgendi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2018: Ratifications are moving ahead, if slowly, on the newly signed African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)—the world’s largest free trade agreement (with the most member countries) since the founding of the World Trade Organization. The African Union and its [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2018: After months of uncertainty about discussions between the newly elected government in Sierra Leone and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), today there is good news from the IMF about its latest review of the country’s economic performance. An IMF team led by Brian Aitken [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2018: Thomas Cook Group, one of the leading global tour operators may soon start tourism operations in Sierra Leone, according to ministry of tourism report. In a meeting with the Flight and Airport Services Manager of Thomas Cook Group,  Stephane Joly, the company said they [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2018: On Thursday, the newly-elected President of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio, told the United Nations, that “with a strong belief in a shared vision and a common destiny, Sierra Leoneans stand with the [international community] in meeting the world’s challenges.” Acknowledging the role that [Read More]