Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2022: In November 2021, when Sierra Leone’s finance minister Dennis Vandi presented his government’s budget for the 2022 financial year to parliament for approval, he told MPs that total expenditure and net lending for the period January to September 2021 amounted to Le8.71 trillion (19.5 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2022: If Sierra Leone’s economy is to grow by the 4% predicted by the World Bank in their latest country report, there must be a massive shift towards expansion of production and export in key sectors of the economy. This can only come from foreign [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2022: A new report published by the World Bank yesterday in Freetown, says that Sierra Leone’s real GDP growth is projected to average 4.4 percent during 2022-24, with contributions from mining and agriculture, and a partial recovery in tourism and manufacturing. However, the growth outlook [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2022: President Bio last Sunday, held bilateral discussions with the Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the Emir’s Palace in Doha. Welcoming the President of Sierra Leone, the Emir said that the state visit is an opportunity to [Read More]

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]