Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 April 2022: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) reached 540,000 people in Sierra Leone with lifesaving and resilience building assistance last year, helping them meet their basic food and nutritional needs amidst rising levels of hunger, partly due to the economic fallout from COVID-19. “Our [Read More]
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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2022: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) met on 30th March 2022, to discuss the current economic situation affecting millions of people in the country, as inflation and unemployment continue to rise, and the economy contracts. But the Monetary [Read More]
Rev. Alfred Munda Sam Foray, BA, BSAgE, MSc: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2022: A few weeks ago, I read where His Excellency, President Julius Maada Bio, returned from an overseas trip with an agreement to purchase three million tons of rice over the next three years from the Socialist [Read More]
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2022: I am excited to start my day today, introducing Freetown City Council’s partner – Freetown Waste Transformers CEO Ami Dumbuya to the UNOPS Country Manager and her team, at the waste to energy bio digester pilot project in Aberdeen. This [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2022: Last Friday, 8th April 2022, the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission to Sierra Leone, led by Sukhwinder Singh – Advisor, African Department; and the IMF Resident Representative – Monique Newiak, met with the country’s Ministry of Planning and Economic Development (MoPED) to further [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2022: A team of researchers from the Arizona State University (ASU) School for the Future of Innovation in Society in the United States of America (USA) and the Centre for Economic Research and Capacity Building in Freetown, have presented their research findings to the Ministry [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2022: New report produced by the African Development Bank show improvement in gender discrimination laws in Benin, Djibouti, Somalia, Zimbabwe and Liberia, by ensuring that national policies are in place to advance gender equality. But at the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic has sharpened the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2022: Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has been named the 2022 winner of the Africa Road Builders–Babacar Ndiaye Trophy. The prize is awarded to leading figures in Africa who have demonstrated their commitment to the development of transport infrastructure on the continent. The selection committee [Read More]
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