Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2023: FA Oil, an upstream vehicle of billionaire businesswoman Folorunso Alakija, has been awarded a substantial offshore oil exploration right in Sierra Leone by President Bio. According to media reports, Sierra Leonea’s Petroleum Directorate (PDSL) awarded six blocks to FA Oil under a single petroleum [Read More]

Macky Sall and Ousmane Diagana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2023: While Senegal’s level of electrification is one of the highest in West Africa with an 80% access rate, many countries on the continent are experiencing a real energy crisis. (Photo above: Macky Sall – President of the Republic of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: Yesterday Tuesday 5th December – Day 5 of the COP28 World Summit, Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr spoke at the UN Press Conference on the Global Cooling Pledge on behalf of C40 Cities, and then went on to participate in a high level panel at which [Read More]

SierraEye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: Sierra Leone this week announced a landmark agreement with China for the construction of an 8-kilometer bridge connecting Freetown to the Lungi Airport, a project said to be estimated to cost $1.5 billion. While the prospect of improved connectivity between Freetown and Lungi [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: The government of Sierra Leone has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Road and Bridge Corporation and the Atepa Group’s architectural firm, for the construction of a 5 miles long bridge across Freetown to Lungi, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, government [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: A new implementation framework was launched yesterday to facilitate coordinated action among the 56 Commonwealth countries, including African member states, on land, biodiversity and climate challenges, directly impacting a quarter of the world’s land area. The Commonwealth Secretariat unveiled the Living Lands Charter Implementation [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2023: C40 Co-Chair and Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, delivered a powerful statement at the UN Secretary-General’s event on Non-State Actor Ambition: Implementation of the High-Level Expert Group report Integrity Matters at COP28. This is what she said: “Dear Excellencies, “Mayors are at the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2023: Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr, one of Sierra Leone’s most outstanding politicians and climate change action campaigners, championing efforts in Sierra Leone to mitigate the impact of climate change and deforestation in the capital Freetown, will take centre stage in Dubai today, where the COP28 UN [Read More]

Lansana Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 November 2023: On 14 June, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued his flagship annual report, Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2022. It states that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights abuse had dramatically [Read More]