Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Since the end of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, successive governments have made little effort to fully implement the country’s State Enterprises Privatisation Strategy, which was drawn up with the assistance of the World Bank and DFID. Dogged by political interference, incompetence [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s economic recovery is far too reliant on the mining industry, especially iron ore export, which in the last six years has experienced serious turbulence, as a result of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and global economic downturn. If the economy is to recover [Read More]

Mercè Labordena: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Electricity lifts people out of poverty and improves their health and standards of living. Yet 1.3 billion of the world’s people don’t have access to it. And more than half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. Getting affordable electricity to the sub-Saharan population [Read More]

Ayodele Odusola: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Africa’s experience on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) presents a paradox. Conventionally, capital is expected to flow from countries with low to high returns. During 2006-2011, the region experienced the highest rate of return on FDI (11.4%) compared to 9.1% in Asia, [Read More]

Author: Sorie Fofana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2018: A two-year Utility Grid Infrastructure and Electricity Supply Agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone – represented by the Ministry of Energy and the Karadeniz Powership Kaya Bey Company Limited, for the generation of 30MW of electricity has been concluded. But [Read More]

Author: Minister of Energy and Minister of Finance: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2018 The Ministry of Energy in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA) and the Electricity Generation and Transmission Company, wishes to inform the general public that they have concluded negotiations [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2018: President Julius Maada Bio, yesterday, Saturday 2nd June 2018, joined thousands of people across Sierra Leone who came out in pouring rain to help clean their neighbourhoods and street corners. The National Cleaning Programme was initiated in April by the president, as one of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2018: The President of the Africa Young Voices Media Empire – Ambassador Anthony Navo, who was recently crowned ‘Youth Ambassador’ for his contributions to building a positive future for the youth of Sierra Leone, has been crowned the ‘Most Influential Young Sierra Leonean 2018’. Mr [Read More]

Author: Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 June 2018: Good things have happened in Sierra Leone, but we are far behind many other countries. I think the former President is spot on because we can’t even compare Sierra Leone to Rwanda, which we once referred to as another war-torn [Read More]