Economy & Business

Meet Africa’s food champions

Franck Kuwonu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2021: When the world meets in September 2021 to take a look at global food systems at the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit, it will be after a long and extensive worldwide consultative process. In the almost two years of preparation leading up [Read More]

Economy & Business

World Bank approves additional $6.8 million to strengthen education service delivery in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2021: The government of Sierra Leone will receive $6.85 million in additional financing to support the COVID-19 education response in the country, the World Bank announced yesterday. Funded by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) under the Free Education Project, the financing will support activities [Read More]

Economy & Business

ICT innovators in Africa to benefit from competition launched by the African Telecommunications Union 

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2021: The second edition of the ATU Africa Innovation Challenge was today launched by the African Telecommunications Union (ATU). ATU made the announcement in Nairobi-Kenya, in a virtual ceremony hosted with competition partner-the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Announcing the initiative, Secretary-General of the ATU, Mr. [Read More]

Economy & Business

IFC and The Rockefeller Foundation partner to advance distributed renewable energy solutions in African emerging markets

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2021: The International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, and The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) today announced a new partnership that aims to deploy $150 million of RF’s catalytic capital in blended finance to mobilize up to $2 billion of private [Read More]

Economy & Business

World Bank approves $40 Million to improve governance and service delivery in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2021: The World Bank has approved a $40 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) in support of the Accountable Governance for Basic Service Delivery project in Sierra Leone. According to the World Bank, the project will improve resource management, transparency and accountability of [Read More]