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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2021: Orange has appointed new CEOs for three of its subsidiaries in Africa and the Middle East, in agreement with its local partners and during the Board of Directors meetings of its subsidiaries. Patrick Benon (currently CEO of Orange Botswana) has been appointed CEO of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2021: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it has completed the third and fourth reviews of Sierra Leone’s performance under the program supported by an Extended Credit Facility (ECF). Completion of these reviews it says has enabled the IMF to disburse SDR31.11 million [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2021: Figures published by the African Development Bank, show that Sierra Leone’s economy has been seriously hurt by the COVID–19 pandemic, with real GDP estimated to contract by 2.7% in 2020 after growing by 5.4% in 2019. The decline is attributable to weak external demand [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2021: The United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) says it has committed to provide $217 million in debt financing for a new 83-megawatt power plant to be established in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This is equivalent to the entire capacity of the Bumbuna Hydro-electricity Plant [Read More]
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