Economy & Business

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]

Alhaji Salieu Mansaray: Sierra Leone telegraph: 25 September 2022: Patriotic Citizens of Freetown and Sierra Leone, Our Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, has won a highly valuable prize that is worth more than the US$1 Million, plus technical support, she will be bringing to Freetown for Freetown, the capital of [Read More]

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2022: Paul Akiwumi, Director of UNCTAD’s Division for Africa, discusses a newly released report that urges diversification of African economies. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)’s Director of the Division for Africa and Least Developed Countries Paul Akiwumi is usually [Read More]

Sydney Murphy: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2022: In 2017, the African Union (AU) proclaimed September of each year as “Africa Amnesty Month for the surrender and collection of illicit small arms and light weapons” (SALW), and to encourage widespread support for efforts to stop the smuggling of SALW as [Read More]

Martin Griffiths: Sierra Leone telegraph: 25 September 2022: When the merchant vessel Razoni sailed from Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa earlier this month with more than 26,000 tons of corn for global markets, she was rightly the subject of intense attention. Her passage was the result of months of negotiations between [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 08 September 2022: On Saturday 3rd September, a week after heavy rains caused the loss of lives in the hillside community of Looking Town and considerable damage to properties in several coastal communities, Freetown City Council (“FCC”) started to dredge the culvert waterway. In [Read More]