Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2021: On Friday 3 December 2021, Absolute Barrkee Industries – a Sierra Leonean business, manufacturing common wire nails and sanitary paper products, was awarded a $10,000 prize at the Impact Investment Deal Summit organised by Acumen West Africa and Invest Salone (ISL), demonstrating the promise [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2021: President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana today visited the Luxembourg headquarters of the European Investment Bank and welcomed EUR 82.5 million Team Europe support for new investment to strengthen healthcare, provision of specialist medical equipment and medicines across Ghana under the national COVID-19 Health Response [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2021: Cassava Technologies, Africa’s first integrated tech company of continental scale, today announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mitsui & Co., Ltd (Mitsui), one of Japan’s largest global conglomerates. Cassava Technologies and Mitsui share a common vision of facilitating [Read More]

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]