Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2022: Since its launch at COP26, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) has accelerated clean energy solutions to support economic development and climate priorities across 12 countries on multiple continents, with plans to expand to seven more countries next year. Highlights of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2022: World leaders are in Egypt attending COP27 – the global summit on climate  change, which many believe will set the new agenda and provide renewed impetus for nations to cut carbon emissions and effectively manage the impact of climate change. As developing countries such [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 November 2022: The Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) of the Republic of Indonesia, Erick Thohir, initiated the Makmur Program in 2021 to help farmers increase their income and productivity through comprehensive and sustainable technical assistance and agriculture cultivation. Makmur is an agriculture ecosystem which connects farmers [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2022: Profound history has been made today in Britain, after members of parliament of the ruling Conservative Party gave their overwhelming support to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer – Rishi Sunak to take over from Liz Truss, following her resignation as Prime Minister last [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2022: Nippon Express Europe GmbH (hereinafter “NX Europe”), a group company of NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC., has spun off two of its existing business locations in Morocco — the Morocco Branch and the Tanger Med Logistics Center — into subsidiary companies, newly establishing Nippon Express [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2022: Over a two-week period (from 30th September to 14th October) Freetown City Council with support from the Catholic Relief Service (CRS), supplied bowser water to water tanks in 80 communities and markets across the city. This one-off provision of water follows the establishment of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2022: The world is at risk of yet another year of record hunger as the global food crisis continues to drive yet more people into worsening levels of acute food insecurity, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in call for urgent action to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2022: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, on Monday delivered a keynote address at an Energy Sector Roundtable conference held in Freetown, aimed at attracting much needed investments for the country’s flagging energy sector. Since Sierra Leone was declared bankrupt in the 1980s, it [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September: 2022: Calls are growing once again for President Bio to sack the Central Bank Governor – Professor Kelfala Kallon (Photo above), as the country’s economy and its currency – the New Leone, continue to descend into free fall, amid huge rise in costs of living [Read More]