Economy & Business

Africa Oil Week Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2022: Energy experts say the growing oil crisis across the globe is a wake-up call for the African continent to be become less dependent on foreign oil supplies. The cost of fuel has risen sharply, with Brent crude oil hitting a 14-year [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2022: DabaDoc and Orange  are launching DabaDoc Consult, a brand-new service allowing the African diaspora residing in Europe and the United States to instantly offer a video medical consultation to their relatives living in their country of origin. The launch of the exclusive service comes [Read More]

Vera Songwe: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2022: As African and European leaders gather for a crucial EU AU summit in Brussels, Africans are gripped by both a sense of hopeful anticipation – and a sense of fatigued apprehension. Hope because the summit is about Financing for Recovery, and adequate [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2022: Dr. George Agyekum Nana DONKOR, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) – (Photo), and Mr. Subhasis Dhal, Chief Executive of India Exim Bank, last Thursday 24 March 2022 signed an historic commercial credit [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2022: Last week, there was confusion and surprise when the government of Sierra Leone’s Chairman of the Office of the Presidential Infrastructure and Initiatives, Dr John Tambi described the ongoing construction work taking place adjacent to the Lungi International Airport as “a new international airport”, [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2022: I am in Dakar at the 9th World Water Forum with Councillor N’Bompah Turay and Councillor Alhassan Bangura. Today I spoke at the OECD High Level Panel alongside Henk Ovink, Special Envoy for Water Affairs of the Netherlands, Joel Kolker, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2022: Sierra Leone’s “new airport project is a $270 Million Build Operate and Transfer Project between the SUMMA Group (a Turkish company) and the Government of Sierra Leone,” says Dr. John Edward Tambi, Chairman of the Office of Presidential Infrastructure Initiative. (Photo above: President Bio [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2022: The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a new strategy for addressing fragility and building resilience in Africa for the period 2022-2026. The strategy offers a roadmap for building more resilient institutions, economies, and societies across the continent [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2022: Last Wednesday, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr, Deputy Mayor Osman T Koroma, CA Festus Kallay and the team from Freetown City Council met with a team from the city of Zurich to finalise the city-to-city cooperation project, which will focus on the regeneration of Central Business District [Read More]