Economy & Business

Africa’s new harvest: To transform agriculture, we must speed up innovations and collaboration

Qu Dongyu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2021: A promising transformation has already started in Africa’s farmlands. Family farmers are increasingly using innovative approaches and scientific research, combined with traditional knowledge, to increase the productivity of their fields, diversify their crops, boost their nutrition, and build climate resilience. This shift [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sub-Saharan Africa economic growth slows amid ongoing and new economic shocks – says World Bank

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2022: As the Sub-Saharan Africa economy struggles to recover from the 2020 recession induced by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, the region now faces new economic growth challenges, compounded by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to the World Bank. The World Bank’s latest Africa’s Pulse, [Read More]