Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: A report coming out of the University of Lagos has examined the environmental effects of British colonial rule in Africa and has asked that this value be included in all reparations conversation. The report, titled CO2lonianism, Ecocide, Reparations, argues that the long-lasting ecological harm [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, one of the city’s hardest hit by climate change, the destruction of forests, and environmental pollution, is now using technological innovation to help transform lives, by installing biodigesters in communities across the city. Last week, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: AXIAN Group and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched a major women’s financial inclusion programme to expand access to finance and business support for more than 34,000 women-led enterprises in five African countries. Supported by the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for [Read More]

SHIBUYA (Japan) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: Ask what Africa needs to secure its economic future, and the answers tend to follow a familiar script: capital, technology and infrastructure. Rarely does ‘data’ make the list. Yet, data sovereignty, the ability to collect, control and act on reliable information about [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2026: One of West Africa’s oldest and historic markets established during the slave trade, which saw hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Africans, shipped across the ocean to America to work on plantations, is to be rebuilt into a modern indoor market. The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: Sungrow, the globally leading PV inverter and energy storage system (ESS) provider, has successfully commissioned the RESPITE Solar-plus-Storage Project in Sierra Leone, marking the country’s first major national-scale power generation project completed and connected to the grid in nearly a decade. The project features [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) into corrupt-related activities at the National Revenue Authority (NRA) reveals that the ASYCUDA system had been seriously compromised, resulting in the loss of over 300 billion leones in government revenue. (Photo: Outgoing NRA Commissioner-General, Jeneba Bangura). The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Directorate of Education, Science, and Culture, successfully organized a training workshop on strengthening national institutional capacity for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) stakeholders in Conakry, Guinea, from August 11 to 13, 2026. [Read More]

John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 august 2026: On International Youth Day, Wednesday 12 August, Mayor of Freetown and C40 Cities Co-Chair Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr launched the third cohort of the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund 2.0. This initiative empowers young people to identify and implement solutions to the climate [Read More]