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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2018: Standard Chartered Bank today announced the official launch of its digital bank in Côte d’Ivoire. This marks the Bank’s first digital bank in Africa and the first-of-its-kind to open in Côte d’Ivoire. Mr. Bruno Nabagné KONE, Minister of Information technologies and communication of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2018: Africa is projected to have over 840 million youths by 2050, with the continent having the youngest population on earth. The African Development Bank and its East and North African Governors have stressed the need for urgent measures to match the continent’s growing population [Read More]
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