Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2021: The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) 13th U.S.-Africa Business Summit  starts today via teleconferencing, and ends on 29 July.  The Summit is CCA’s flagship conference that is considered essential for those doing business on the continent as well as the U.S. and African leaders [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2021: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the West Africa Trade & Investment Hub, has awarded a $1.2 million co-investment grant to Warc Group, a social enterprise with agricultural production and consulting operations in Ghana and Sierra Leone, to help smallholder farmers [Read More]

Anthony Kamara, Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2021:  The Energy Nexus Network (TENN), a regional energy ecosystem hub in Sierra Leone and SELCO Foundation, an Indian NGO have formed a strategic partnership to combine their expertise and build innovative sustainable energy delivery models for the rural population in Sierra [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2021: The European Investment Bank and the International Solar Alliance today published a new study outlining solutions to overcome key affordability and investment challenges holding back off-grid solar investment across Africa. “Increased use of off-grid solar technology across Africa is essential to harness clean and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2021: The Covid-19 pandemic has provided the impetus for a stronger partnership between India and Africa with potential benefits to both as they build back sustainably after the crisis, experts attending the 16th CII-Exim Bank Digital Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership affirmed. Speaking at the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2021: The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition, the flagship philanthropic program established by the Jack Ma Foundation to help foster an inclusive pan-African entrepreneurial ecosystem, held its first ever Annual Summit in a fully virtual format, gathering over 1,600 attendees from across Africa. The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2021: The African Energy Chamber (AEC) is proud to announce that Ghana will be hosting a pavilion at African Energy Week (AEW) 2021 taking place in Cape Town on the 9th-12th of November 2021. Led by Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Ghana’s Minister of Energy, as [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2021: The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) opens the nominations for the 2021 annual AWIEF Awards. Currently in its fifth edition, the prestigious AWIEF Awards recognise, honour, and celebrate women entrepreneurs and business owners in Africa and across various industry sectors for their [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2021: Last week in Sierra Leone’s parliament, opposition party MPs questioned the Bio-led government about the Le31.3 Trillion that they borrowed in the last three years of taking power in 2018. Parliamentary Leader of the National Grand Coalition party (NGC) – Dr Kandeh Yumkella, challenged [Read More]