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Sierra Leone to benefit from Commonwealth Trade Finance Credit Facility

April 20, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 April 2018: Sierra Leone may benefit from a new US $100 million Commonwealth Trade Finance Credit Facility which is aimed at ensuring that smaller nations within the Commonwealth have access to global markets, says State House Communications Unit. With the economy of Sierra Leone suffering from [Read More]

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JFK Foundation donates 100 market tables to distressed Abacha Street traders

April 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: A charitable organisation – the JFK Foundation, which was established over five years ago by the former Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Mr Joseph Kamara and his wife Lynette Kamara, to support marginalised and vulnerable groups in Society, today brought smiles to the faces [Read More]

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Sierra Leone debt sustainability – the road to deeper economic austerity

April 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Author: Dr. Ezekiel Duramany-Lakkoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: International debt has implications for domestic growth.  In the past decades, most developed and developing economies have adopted huge debt appetite in the process of stimulating economic growth.  The United States, UK and China are no exceptions to this economic order. [Read More]

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Sierra Leone rankanomics and the much-debated debt burden

April 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Anthony Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: Listening to the donor briefing hosted last week by President Julius Maada Bio about the broke country he has inherited, I could not help but remember Dr. Yumkella’s many lectures as I sat with him on the campaign vehicle, his public lectures, [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s Masada Waste Management wins major award

April 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2018: The Masada Waste Transformers, a joint venture comprised of The Waste Transformers from the Netherlands and Masada Waste Management in Sierra Leone, have won the West African Forum for Climate & Clean Energy Financing (WAFCCEF-3) awards, organised by the Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN). [Read More]

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Sierra Leone president Bio opens talks with IMF and development partners

April 13, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2018: Sierra Leone’s newly elected president Julius Maada Bio was today granted a vote of confidence by the IMF and the country’s international development partners at a High-Level Forum on Economic Policy Priorities, jointly organised by the IMF and the ministry of finance in Freetown. [Read More]

Economy & Business

How Nairobi can fix its serious waste problem – lessons too for Freetown

March 24, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2018: Voters of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown have voted in a new Mayor – Mrs Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, who polled almost 60% to win a resounding victory. But the tasks ahead for the new mayor are enormously clear, including tackling the city’s mounting domestic waste that [Read More]

Economy & Business

Women bear the brunt of Africa’s urban disasters such as collapse of landfills

March 24, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Daniel Moshenberg: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2018: The last 12 months have been bracketed by two catastrophic, and predictable, events: the collapse of the Koshe Garbage landfill on March 11, 2017, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the collapse of the Hulene Garbage landfill on February 19, 2018, in Maputo, Mozambique. 115 people were [Read More]

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African businesses should embrace cross-border e-commerce – says DHL

March 16, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2018:   Cross border e-commerce continues to provide significant growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers with an international online product offering. According to a 2017 DHL report, cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020 (from [Read More]

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