Economy & Business

Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2022: The cascading global events of the 2020s seems to have no end in sight. The once-in-a-century pandemic (COVID-19) has been followed by the destructive Russian invasion in Ukraine, strong inflationary pressures around the world linked, ominously, to a surge in global food [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2022: On Monday, 14 June 2022, I was hosted by Mayor Corine Mauch of the City of Zurich. We concluded negotiations and the preparatory stage for the Freetown-Zurich ‘City-2-City Cooperation’ (C2CC) and simultaneously launched the implementation phase of the Freetown Central [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2022: A delegation from the U.S. Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) arrived  in Sierra Leone yesterday for a series of bilateral meetings designed to advance the development of the country’s first compact program – a large grant designed to facilitate economic growth. According to a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2022: President Julius Maada Bio yesterday commissioned three new locomotives to enable Kingho Mining Company move its iron ore from the New Tonkolili Iron Ore Mines in Ferengbey, Tonkolili District to the port of Pepel in Port Loko District. The commissioning took place at a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2022: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai yesterday received a report from the Centre for Accountability and the Rule of Law (CARL) and the Institute of Governance Reform (IGR) titled: “Mitigating the impact of COVID-19 Responses on Governance and Accountability [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2022: A Vietnamese delegation to Sierra Leone held discussions yesterday with President Dr Julius Maada Bio in Freetown, and expressed desire and interest in building a stronger partnership with the country. In March this year, President Bio was in Hanoi, the capital city of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 June 2022: The World Bank on Thursday approved a $41.1 million International Development Association (IDA) grant “to support the establishment of an efficient and accessible land administration system in Sierra Leone.” The project, it says, will help strengthen the country’s legal and institutional framework in the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2022: Sierra Leone’s Chief Census Officer yesterday announced what he described as provisional results for the country’s 2021 Census that was conducted last year. The Chief Census Officer, who doubles as the Statistician-General of Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats-SL) – Professor Osman Sankoh said that Statistics [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2022: When Capitol Food, the makers of Sierra Juice, piloted a new street and small vendor programme as part of their marketing mix, the company created the opportunity for 140 officially registered vendors in Freetown to expand their businesses and boost their incomes. Before introducing [Read More]