Economy & Business

Lansana Fofanah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2021: One of the recommendations made by the Transport and Internal Affairs Committee in Parliament after the Wellington Fire disaster was for major streets in Freetown to be cleared off unused vehicles. In the process, fifty-four streets in Freetown have been identified as [Read More]

Intra-African Trade Fair: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2021: The Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2021, taking place at the Durban International Conference Centre, South Africa, will on Thursday, 18 November, host its Investment Day. Organised under the theme “Unlocking Investment and Accelerating Deal Flow in Africa”, the investor forum is [Read More]

African Export-Import Bank: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2021: Deals worth $36 billion were recorded as of 21 November 2021 at the second Intra Africa Trade Fair (IATF 2021). IATF 2021 took place from 15 to 21 November in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Presenting the preliminary report of the IATF [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 December 2021: The capital of Sierra Leone – Freetown, home to over two million people and once known as the darkest city on the planet for its lack of electricity, has once again returned to claiming its global darkness status, after the Turkish ocean power generating [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2021: Twelve Sierra Leonean entrepreneurs, who have gone through a comprehensive seven-week ‘bootcamp’, will be presenting their business plans to representatives from nine investment funds this Friday, 3rd December 2021 at a special impact investment deal summit organised by Acumen West Africa and Invest Salone [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2021: African leaders and policymakers have called for strategies to harness the potential of the blue economy to achieve sustainable development. The call came at a high-level conference hosted by the Government of Mozambique on 18 and 19 November in the City of Vilanculos. The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2021: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone yesterday Monday 29 November 2021,  held talks at State House in Freetown with two Hollywood film producers – Ariel Leon and Michael Duff, from The Roots Production Service, to discuss the possibility of filming on location in [Read More]

Austine Luseni: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2021: Yesterday Monday, 29 November 2021, Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio dispatched Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh as a Special Envoy to Cóte d’Ivoire, to engage President Alassane Dramane Ouattara on the TRANSCO CLSG Power Purchase and Transmission Services Agreement. Today, [Read More]

Siera Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2021: The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank last Thursday, 25th November 2021, approved a new Water Strategy for 2021-2025: “Towards a Water-Secure Africa.” The five-year strategy, approved on 17 November 2021, aims to increase water security in Africa, and to foster its [Read More]