Economy & Business

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]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2018: Turkish Airlines, flying to more destinations in Africa than any other airline, marks another milestone in its international expansion with the launch of flights to Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone.  This new direct flight to Freetown (Sierra Leone) also bring the total countries [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2018: GE – the world’s premier Digital Industry Company has announced a partnership with the National Youth Service Corps of Nigeria (NYSC) to empower Youth Corps members with valuable entrepreneurial skills in line with its commitment to skills development in Nigeria. Known as the Start [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2018: The 5th Annual Commonwealth Africa Summit will take place in London from the 12th – 15th March 2018, under the theme: Common Good. The event will spark new thinking on how to achieve Shared Prosperity and Common Good for Africans; and how Africa’s growing [Read More]

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2nd February 2018: It is true that in order to create decent quality of life for citizens in society today, requires massive investment in public services. But generating the revenue to pay for these services in a poor country like Sierra Leone is not [Read More]

Richard Munang and Robert Mgendi Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2018: “If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today”—so goes an African proverb, crystalizing the solutions to the continent’s socioeconomic inequalities. Africa is second only to Latin America in economic inequalities. Dollar millionaires in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 January 2018 Rwanda under strongman Paul Kagame has been showered with praise for its remarkable economic progress and political stability since the 1994 genocide that claimed over 800 000 lives. But Rwanda’s relative successes have come at a huge cost to civil liberties. Nic Cheeseman of [Read More]

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: From “Africa Reeling” to “Africa Rising,” there’s a new narrative for the African continent, now showing promising signs of sustainable growth under more stable governments. McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, predicts that Africa’s combined GDP will be $2.6 trillion by 2020 and [Read More]