Economy & Business

UNITLIFE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2021: Celebrating World Youth Day, youth leaders across the world are delighted that UNITLIFE will join the Act4Food Act4Change campaign to raise awareness among the young populations about the need for youth to play a major role in food systems transformations. The current food [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2021: On July 27 – 29, 2021, the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) hosted the 13th U.S – Africa Business Summit, featuring a stellar line up of African and U.S government and private sector leaders as part of the program. CCA was delighted to provide [Read More]

Moses A. Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2021: Addressing macroeconomic weaknesses and implementing reforms to mitigate their risks to growth will be critical for a sustained inclusive economic recovery that supports poverty reduction, according to a new World Bank economic analysis for Sierra Leone. The 2021 Sierra Leone Economic [Read More]

NJ Ayuk: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2021: Six months ago, Canadian oil and gas company Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (“ReconAfrica”) began exploratory drilling in the deep Kavango Basin of northeast Namibia and into northwest Botswana. The company holds a total licensed area of 8.5 million acres in the area, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2021: Sierra Leone’s economy is projected to recover from the COVID-19 contraction with real GDP expected to rebound by 3.0 percent in 2021, an upward revision of 0.8 percentage point relative to the 2020 forecast, according to the new World Bank ‘Sierra Leone Economic Update’ [Read More]

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 August 2021: Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All. On the sidelines of the UN High-Level Political Forum taking place in New York, Ms. Ogunbiyi spoke to Africa Renewal’s Kingsley [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 August 2021: A new professional network launches today (4th August 2021), by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) with the Sierra Leone Reporters Union (SLRU) as an implementing partner, aiming to boost independent news production on business, financial and economic issues in Sierra Leone, by [Read More]

Damilola Adewumi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2021: Digital transformation expert Timothy Laku, Ugandan, believes Africa is poised to reap bountifully from the fourth industrial revolution, which the economist Klause Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, says is being driven partly by digital technologies. Mr. Laku’s sunny optimism derives [Read More]

Cristina Duarte: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2021: Africa is cognizant of the multifaceted and multidimensional domestic and global opportunities it must harness, and the challenges it must overcome to strengthen the foundations of its development. African Member States committed themselves to pursuing a common continental plan for the next 50 [Read More]