Economy & Business

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]

UNITLIFE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2021: Celebrating World Youth Day, youth leaders across the world are delighted that UNITLIFE will join the Act4Food Act4Change campaign to raise awareness among the young populations about the need for youth to play a major role in food systems transformations. The current food [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2021: On July 27 – 29, 2021, the Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) hosted the 13th U.S – Africa Business Summit, featuring a stellar line up of African and U.S government and private sector leaders as part of the program. CCA was delighted to provide [Read More]

Moses A. Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2021: Addressing macroeconomic weaknesses and implementing reforms to mitigate their risks to growth will be critical for a sustained inclusive economic recovery that supports poverty reduction, according to a new World Bank economic analysis for Sierra Leone. The 2021 Sierra Leone Economic [Read More]

NJ Ayuk: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2021: Six months ago, Canadian oil and gas company Reconnaissance Energy Africa Ltd. (“ReconAfrica”) began exploratory drilling in the deep Kavango Basin of northeast Namibia and into northwest Botswana. The company holds a total licensed area of 8.5 million acres in the area, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2021: Sierra Leone’s economy is projected to recover from the COVID-19 contraction with real GDP expected to rebound by 3.0 percent in 2021, an upward revision of 0.8 percentage point relative to the 2020 forecast, according to the new World Bank ‘Sierra Leone Economic Update’ [Read More]

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 August 2021: Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All. On the sidelines of the UN High-Level Political Forum taking place in New York, Ms. Ogunbiyi spoke to Africa Renewal’s Kingsley [Read More]