Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2021: Last Friday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio presented a cheque of Le10 million to each of the 88 fire victims, tollaling Le880 million, and provided other support to three households affected by the disaster of 5th March 2021 that gutted the Belgium Market in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2021: World Bank Country Director for Sierra Leone, Ghana and Liberia, Mr Pierre Frank Laporte, held discussions with President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Wednesday, and pledged the Bank’s support for the establishment of the country’s proposed National Health Insurance Scheme. In July last year, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 August 2021: Mohammed Barkindo, Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has urged African oil-producing countries to continue developing their energy sector activities. He reassured that OPEC will continue to serve as a viable partner and will “assist in whatever way possible.” Speaking [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 August 2021: Magistrate Sahr Kekura yesterday sentenced Li Shichao, Manager of the National Workshop in Cline Town in the east end of Freetown to four years imprisonment for electricity theft, after he was brought before the Court for illegal supplying and selling electricity belonging to the [Read More]

Audrey Simango: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2021: Agriculture in Zimbabwe is on an upswing and young people are the driving force. For example, the country is set to harvest 2.8 million tons of maize this year, triple the 2020 harvest, and making it the highest output in 20 years. [Read More]

Invest Africa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2021: Invest Africa – the leading trade and investment platform for African markets, has launched a new programme of support for over 500 African MSMEs. The Next Generation Africa Forum  will take place virtually on 16th September using a digital platform to connect [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2021: Over a week ago, State House in Freetown announced that president Bio will be arriving in Turkey for a two-weeks holiday and to seek much needed private sector investments for Sierra Leone’s ailing industrial sectors. Yesterday, State House officials reported that president Bio and [Read More]

Dr. Ezekiel K. Duramany-Lakkoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2016: The problem is not redenomination, but how it is implemented.  Proponents of currency recalibration techniques have argued that, if implemented properly by introducing further counter inflationary and monetary policies, redenomination will lead to a new exchange rate which will create [Read More]

Memuna Forna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2021: Over 40 representatives of Sierra Leone’s financial sector came together on 4 August, 2021 to kick off a ground-breaking series of sectoral public–private dialogue (PPD) intended to institutionalise private sector engagement in decision making and feed into Sierra Leone’s first Presidential PPD. [Read More]