Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2024: Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., President of the Republic of Liberia, has issued three critical Executive Orders aimed at fostering economic growth, enhancing national infrastructure, and supporting key state-owned enterprises. These Executive Orders represent the President’s commitment to addressing urgent national priorities and ensuring sustainable [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2024: The Abidjan-Lagos corridor highway will link the cities of five major West African countries by 2030, and is set to become a powerful economic and industrial hub courtesy of the Spatial Development Initiative promoted by the African Development Bank (AfDB). This 1,028-kilometre transnational coastal [Read More]

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2024: Ecobank has agreed to a “settlement agreement” to refund $1.5 million to the Sierra Leone government, paving the way for the dismissal of all corruption charges against the bank, the Anti-Corruption Commission said on Wednesday. The commission said it will offer no [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2024: In a bold move to address mounting public concerns, the Ghanaian government released a comprehensive audit report in May 2024 on its contentious revenue assurance contract with Strategic Mobilization Ghana Ltd (SML). The disclosure came after months of public outcry and [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2024: The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MOECC), has announced the lifting of the suspension on the transportation of timber logs, signalling a major shift in the regulation of one of the country’s most contentious [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: 21 November 2024: Sierra Leone’s telecommunications landscape is in chaos, and at the centre of the storm stands Sekou Amadou Bah, the embattled CEO of Orange Sierra Leone. His leadership has reduced what was once a prominent, trusted brand to a pariah in the telecom industry, characterized [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2024: Octopus Energy’s generation arm, in partnership with Idris Elba, has kicked off its first renewables project in Africa, a pioneering wind farm on Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone. The company announced this milestone at this year’s World Climate Conference (COP29) which is currently taking [Read More]

Dr Doma: Siera Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2024: Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up, because Sierra Leone’s government has an exciting new ride for us.  They’re bringing in a plane with a colourful past – a plane that once skidded off a runway, took a little sidetrack into the grass, and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2924: President Julius Maada Bio last Friday, delivered a keynote address at the World Without Hunger Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, stressing the urgent global food insecurity crisis and the need for united efforts to eliminate hunger. Speaking to an assembly of global leaders, development [Read More]