Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 August 2022: Some additional two million people will benefit from a second phase of the West Africa regional Food Systems Resilience Program (FSRP-2) approved last Friday, 29th July 2022 by the World Bank. $315 million in International Development Association (IDA) financing FSRP-2 will support Chad, Ghana [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 August 2022: A partnership between local authorities in Freetown, Sierra Leone and Bournemouth University in UK, has led to new procedures for handling emergencies and disasters at the city’s large dumpsites and waste collection sites. Photo: Smoking landfill site in Freetown. “Fires are one of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 August 2022: In its maiden Community Development Agreement (CDA) Steering Committee meeting held in Bumbuna, Dansogoia Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone, the Director of Community Affairs of Leone Rock Metal Group, the parent company of Kingho Mining Company said that the company is [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio last week discussed opportunities for more private sector investments with the Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation – Scott Nathan and his team. U.S Ambassador to Sierra Leone, David Reimer, spoke about the several [Read More]

Bitsat Yohannes and Arona Diedouy : Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 July 2022: Africa seeks ways to meet massive energy demand while on net-zero path. With each passing day, global alarms ring louder about climate change threatening the planet. In a race against time, momentum for exploring innovations that will reduce [Read More]

Deogracias Kalima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2022: Chipata city in eastern Zambia, on the border with Malawi, is loosely referred to as “Amsterdam” because, as in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, bicycles are Chipata’s transportation mainstay. Thousands of human-powered bicycles crisscross Chipata traffic lights daily, ferrying groceries, passengers, civil servants, [Read More]

Gloria Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2022: The waves are bigger and stronger, pressure is piling on fish stocks. Rashid Maneno, 56, sat alone, watching the sea pensively. It’s a fine, warm morning on the sandy beach in Bagamoyo some 79 kilometers north-west of Dar-es-Salaam, the port city of [Read More]

Elham M. Ali: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2022: We need to mitigate the effects of climate change, transition to clean, renewable energy, close research gap, and seek intra-governmental and regional collaboration. Oceans make life possible. They produce more than half of the world’s oxygen and capture 50 times more [Read More]

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2022: Almost two weeks after the redenominated currency came into force, some commercial banks in the country are experiencing cash shortages. Last week saw new restrictions imposed on the amount of money individuals are permitted to withdraw from their bank accounts. Many banks, [Read More]