Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2024: A statement published by the World Food Programme (WFP) last week, says that nearly 55 million people in West and Central Africa including Sierra Leonen, will struggle to feed themselves in the June-August 2024 lean season, according to the March 2024 Cadre Harmonisé food [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2024: The 2024 GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition invites agrifood entrepreneurs from across Africa to showcase their startup business ventures. Judges will be looking for innovative founders and co-founders aged 18-35 with the vision to establish sustainable scalable businesses, drive resilience, increase food security, and create [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2024: In just 15 years, Rwanda has increased its electricity access to 75% from 6% in 2009. This took government ownership, leadership, and commitment, partnership with the private sector, funding from development partners, and dedicated structure and institutional strengthening. Photo above: Rwanda aims to become [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2024: The government is rolling out incentives to attract investors to the manufacturing sector, President William Ruto has said. The President said the goal is to grow the country’s manufacturing sector to an ambitious 20 per cent of our GDP by 2030. He pointed out [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2024: Since 2020, there have been military coups in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. Potential spillover of conflicts to the coastal West African countries could endanger some oil projects and deter foreign investment, according to report by analyst – Tsvetana Paraskova, writing for Oilprice.com. The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2024: The 10th Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-10) will be held in hybrid format on 23-25 April 2024 at the headquarters of the African Union Commission (AUC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of the forum is “Reinforcing the 2030 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 April 2024: The World Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse report says that Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth is set to rise for the next two years but not enough to make a significant impact on poverty. According to the report, increased private consumption and declining inflation are supporting [Read More]
Mariama Admire Bundu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 April 2024: In a shocking revelation at last week’s government press conference on March 26th, 2024, Joe-Lahai Sormana, the Director General of Sierra Leone’s Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA), came under intense scrutiny for his egregious mismanagement and lack of transparency, as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2024: The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering young African entrepreneurs from all 54 African countries, has announced the successful entrepreneurs in its tenth selection for the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme. This new cohort brings to 20,000, the number of young African entrepreneurs who [Read More]
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