Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2021: Financial Times and Seedstars announce the startup finalists advancing to the FTxSDG Challenge finale for a chance to win $500K in funding among other prizes. Winners will be announced through a live broadcast on December 17, 1PM CET.  The FTxSDG Challenge was launched to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 December 2021: The spread of the latest COVID variant – Omicron – has proven that we are still far from the end of the pandemic. Though the variant’s origins are still unclear, it was first identified in South Africa but has since spread to various regions [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 December 2021: Vice President Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh of Sierra Leone is in Accra, Ghana, as head of a high-level delegation, including the Minister of Energy, Alhaji Kanja Sesay, to hold experience sharing discussions with Ghana’s Millennium Development Authority (MIDA) with a view [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 December 2021: World Bank Executive Director for Africa Group 1 Constituency, Dr. Taufila Nyamadzabo, today paid a courtesy call on President Dr Julius Maada Bio to consult with the government on tackling emerging challenges. They were introduced by Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Dr Denis Vandi, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 December 2021: The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has announced the winners of the 2021 AWIEF Awards during a hybrid awards ceremony that took place on Friday night, December 3. Many inspirational and outstanding African women entrepreneurs excelled this year in creating opportunities and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 December 2021: For the fourth consecutive year, Uganda’s electricity sector is Africa’s best regulated across a number of key metrics, according to the African Development Bank’s 2021 Electricity Regulatory Index. Other strong performers include East African neighbours, Kenya and Tanzania, as well as Namibia and Egypt. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2021: A section of African ICT Ministers has resolved to end unemployment and expand entrepreneurship in the knowledge and traditional sectors of the continent, by developing the digital skills in Africa. This resolve was arrived at during a virtual Ministerial Roundtable Forum organized by the African [Read More]

Lansana Fofanah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2021: One of the recommendations made by the Transport and Internal Affairs Committee in Parliament after the Wellington Fire disaster was for major streets in Freetown to be cleared off unused vehicles. In the process, fifty-four streets in Freetown have been identified as [Read More]

Intra-African Trade Fair: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2021: The Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) 2021, taking place at the Durban International Conference Centre, South Africa, will on Thursday, 18 November, host its Investment Day. Organised under the theme “Unlocking Investment and Accelerating Deal Flow in Africa”, the investor forum is [Read More]