Economy & Business

$34 million West African project supports rice farming in Bonthe and Kambia districts

Tamba Tengbeh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: The Sierra Leone Regional Rice Value Chain Project (RRVCP) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) last week held its inaugural National Steering Committee meeting to discuss the progress.  The Committee is responsible for providing high-level policy advice and oversee project [Read More]

Economy & Business

Billions of Leones missing again in Sierra Leone government revenue – according to leaked Auditor General report

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s 2019 Auditor General Report will soon be tabled in parliament for debate. And like all previous audit reports of successive governments, the 2019 Report is replete with evidence of massive misappropriation or mismanagement of public funds. According to a leaked copy of [Read More]

Economy & Business

Thousands of businesses to benefit from electronic cash registers in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu Saffa, on Monday commissioned five thousand Electronic Cash Registers (ECR) which will be rolled out immediately across hotels and supermarkets in the country. The National Revenue Authority (NRA) last week, held a five-day technical training for stakeholders [Read More]

Economy & Business

Three electricity distribution officials arrested for corruption in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Elite Scorpion Squad today arrested three officials of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Agency’s (EDSA) billing section at Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown. According to the ACC statement, they are believed to have facilitated the embezzlement of over One [Read More]

Economy & Business

African Heads of State call on world leaders to increase investment to end rural hunger and poverty

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2020: Ten African Heads of State have issued a strong call to other world leaders to increase their funding to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) or risk jeopardizing Sustainable Development Goal targets for eradicating poverty and hunger, particularly in Africa. “We share IFAD’s [Read More]

Economy & Business

ACC investigated and charged three tax officials for stealing billions of foreign travel tax revenue

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2020: Following the publication of a report by the Africanist Press about the Billions of Leones stolen by tax officials working for the country’s National Revenue Authority (NRA), the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday issued a statement saying that they had conducted an investigation into the [Read More]