Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has released its 2025 Annual Report, showcasing another year of strong development results and reaffirming its commitment to advancing a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and integrated Africa. Despite a challenging global environment marked by slower growth, tighter financial conditions, [Read More]

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2026: African leaders are sharpening their focus on digital sovereignty, warning that the continent’s economic future will depend not just on connectivity, but on who controls its data—and where it is stored. At a high-level roundtable during the 58th [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2026: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that its Board has approved a commitment of up to US$100 million to invest in Africa-focused technology fund managers. The launch comes at a pivotal moment for Africa. The continent’s digital economy [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2026: The Ubuntuverse Institute has released The 3 Trillion Corporate Advocacy PlayBook: Africa’s 10× CAMPs Accelerating Just Clean Energy’s Green Industrialisation, a field-defining framework charting how corporate actors can unlock the continent’s $3 trillion clean energy opportunity. Drawing on evidence from the IEA, IRENA, the [Read More]

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2026: The numbers are staggering. (Photo above: President Julius Maada Bio). The silence is deafening. The 2024 Auditor General’s report being the latest release, does not merely point out errors, it reflects a national tragedy. According to the findings, over 243.9 million [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2026: As part of its GRO Strategy, the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) is strengthening its commitment to private sector and SME financing, key drivers of economic growth in West Africa. In this context, EBID is organising a high-level webinar on: “Navigating a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2026: Africa’s sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are increasingly being positioned as active financiers of the continent’s mining sector and a vital tool for unlocking its over $8.5 trillion in untapped mineral resources. With combined assets now exceeding $164 billion, SWFs are emerging as a potential [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 2026: The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu TOURAY, has presented the Status of implementation of the ECOWAS Community Work Programme to the 2026 First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja, Nigeria. Delivering what will be his final presentation to Parliament [Read More]

David Akana / Mongabay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 2026: Fossil fuels have enriched a wealthy few, undermined economic development and left African economies exposed to external shocks, a new report published May 8 in Nairobi, Kenya, argues. Examining 13 oil- and gas-producing African nations, the report concludes that decades of extraction [Read More]