Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: Yesterday, at the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations in New York, and on the margins of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly,  William Samoei Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya and Coordinator of the Committee [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: Spiro, Africa’s leading electric mobility company, has signed a partnership with Yadea, the world’s leading manufacturer of electric two-wheelers, to scale accessible and sustainable electric transport across Africa. The strategic partnership combines Yadea’s global manufacturing and R&D capabilities with Spiro’s operational network and battery-swapping [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: Vodafone Business and Cassava Technologies announced a strategic partnership to develop and enable advanced sovereign AI infrastructure in Egypt through the launch of the country’s first AI factory for operating diverse AI applications and use cases locally. This step aims to position Egypt as [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: In Mobaye, Central African Republic, women are gradually turning their savings into projects for themselves and their families. Business, agriculture, livestock farming or their children’s education, the choices are theirs. When Henriette Yambata received 38,000 CFA francs (approximately USD 67) after several months of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: A report coming out of the University of Lagos has examined the environmental effects of British colonial rule in Africa and has asked that this value be included in all reparations conversation. The report, titled CO2lonianism, Ecocide, Reparations, argues that the long-lasting ecological harm [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, one of the city’s hardest hit by climate change, the destruction of forests, and environmental pollution, is now using technological innovation to help transform lives, by installing biodigesters in communities across the city. Last week, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: AXIAN Group and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched a major women’s financial inclusion programme to expand access to finance and business support for more than 34,000 women-led enterprises in five African countries. Supported by the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for [Read More]

SHIBUYA (Japan) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: Ask what Africa needs to secure its economic future, and the answers tend to follow a familiar script: capital, technology and infrastructure. Rarely does ‘data’ make the list. Yet, data sovereignty, the ability to collect, control and act on reliable information about [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2026: One of West Africa’s oldest and historic markets established during the slave trade, which saw hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Africans, shipped across the ocean to America to work on plantations, is to be rebuilt into a modern indoor market. The [Read More]