Economy & Business

Aissatou Diallo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 September 2022: The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting Africa’s development trajectory. It is exacting a substantial socio-economic toll and putting the survival of half of the continent’s micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) at risk. Four in five African businesses are witnessing a dramatic reduction [Read More]

Nathan Hastings-Spaine: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 September 2022: Ismail Badjie, 36, co-founded Innovarx Global Health, a healthcare services company headquartered in The Gambia whose mission is to transform healthcare delivery in sub-Saharan Africa. He spoke to Nathan Hastings-Spaine for Africa Renewal, about his vision for healthcare in Africa. Excerpts: Give [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 September 2022: The cost of travelling to Sierra Leone has gone up today by $25, after the government announced that it will no longer bear the cost of guaranteeing the security of passengers arriving and leaving the country by air. Writing in a statement published this [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2022: I was excited to launch the Freetown Market Shade Cover project in Calaba Town Market last Friday, 26th August 2022. With the theme “Protecting women and girls from extreme heat”, the project is also being delivered in Congo Market and [Read More]

NACE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2022: The National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE), welcomes the enactment of the Mines and Minerals Development Act 2022. The new law repealed and replaced the Mines and Minerals Act, 2009, and now provides for the introduction of new and improved provisions for exploration, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2022: British engineering and smart tech firm CAL International have teamed up with Australian green tech start-up AirSeed Technologies to embark on a ground-breaking climate change initiative, which will see the aerial platform technology aim to plant 100 million trees by 2024. The ground-breaking Anglo-Australian [Read More]

Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2022: Our current economic hardships in Sierra Leone and Africa is not going to go away soon, unless our leaders  take bold steps at decolonisation and radical breaks from current neoliberal economic models. We have been in perpetual denial for the last [Read More]

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]