Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2022: The fight against corruption in Sierra Leone will not end anytime soon. Criminals and those seeking to bribe their way to achieve their goal are becoming ever more creative and brazen, despite the introduction of tougher penalties by the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2022: The African Energy Chamber (AEC) in partnership with the United Nations (UN) Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Secretariat of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), held a soft launch yesterday of the Team-Energy Africa initiative, aimed at mobilizing private sector financing for accelerated [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2022: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has so far invested an amount of USD 397 million in critical sectors of the Côte d’Ivoire economy. This figure is expected to increase significantly following the implementation of additional pipeline projects which have gone through [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2022: United States Congressman Gregory Meeks (Photo) has warned that the United States will only be part of the future if it invests in Africa now. The congressman from New York and Chairman of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee was speaking during a visit [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2022: According to a new report published yesterday by the World Bank, around 2.4 billion women of working age are not afforded equal economic opportunity and 178 countries maintain legal barriers that prevent their full economic participation. The World Bank’s “Women, Business and the Law [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2022: IFC has appointed Kyle Kelhofer as Senior Country Manager for Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Kelhofer, who previously worked for IFC in Ghana, brings almost 30 years of global development experience to his new role supporting private sector growth, job creation, and [Read More]

James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2022: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Dr. Abu Bakarr Karim, is personally benefiting from the horrific and most ruinous illegal logging Sierra Leone has ever seen. The ministry is one of the most corrupt in the country, and it [Read More]

African Energy Chamber: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 February 2022: With recent sanctions on Russia by western nations threatening the critical supply of Russian gas to European markets, an opportunity has emerged for African gas producers to step up, enhancing hydrocarbon production and exports to meet international supply gaps. Significant progress [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2022: Africa’s leading independent telecommunications services provider, Phase3 Telecom strengthens the call for efforts targeted at stimulating ICT infrastructure development on the continent Phase3 Telecom, Africa’s leading independent aerial fibre optic network infrastructure and telecommunications services provider, has called for enhanced partnership of stakeholders in [Read More]