Economy & Business

Minister of Planning and Economic Development – Dr. Kai-Kai leads United Nations Day celebration

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2021: Yesterday Friday, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai joined his colleague Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mamadi Gobeh-Kamara, Senior Government officials, United Nations Agencies, members of the Diplomatic community and other stakeholders to commemorate the 76th anniversary of the [Read More]

Economy & Business

Cost of living may be a global problem but government of Sierra Leone must pay attention

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2021 Sierra Leone’s year-on-year inflation stood at 11.63% in September, up from 10.88% in August, according to a press release published on Wednesday by Statistics Sierra Leone. The prices of alcoholic beverages, tobacco and narcotic (3.97%), housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels (0.05%), furniture, [Read More]

Economy & Business

Nigerian startup SafeNow NG wins $8K in Seedstars’ global digital democracy hackathon

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2021: The Digital Democracy Challenge, a 72-hour online hackathon by Seedstars focused on developing innovative and viable digital solutions to strengthen the digital democratic space, has declared its winners: Divao (Hong Kong), SafeNow NG (Nigeria), and Crowd Journal (Kenya). The top three solutions are awarded [Read More]

Economy & Business

Private investment in Africa is exceeding expectations in 2021, according to new AVCA report

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2021: Despite widespread decline felt by most economies across the globe, private equity fundraising in Africa has already managed to reach US$1.3bn for the first half of 2021, when including final and interim closes. Mirroring the gradual stabilisation of Africa’s macroeconomic environment is the African [Read More]