Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2021: President of Kingho Energy Group, Colin Ding has promised to optimise the Tonkolili Iron Ore grade from 52% to more than 65% so that the company’s product will be globally competitive. Mr Ding made this statement during a community engagement ceremony held in Bumbuna [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2021: After several weeks of media attention on allegations of the government of Sierra Leone having sold precious seaside land to the Chinese for the construction of a fish feed factory that critics say will destroy the environment and cause massive suffering on the local [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2021: The people of Sierra Leone have been warned to expect very freak weather conditions this year, especially unusual thunderstorms, heavy and sporadic rainfall followed by severely dry weather causing drought which may affect farming crop yield. (Photo above: Sierra Leone’s weatherman – Deputy Director [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2021: President of Kingho Energy Group, Colin Ding has said he is very happy to come to Sierra Leone and will do more to invest in the country. Mr Ding made this statement in the early hours of Tuesday 18th May 2021 on his arrival [Read More]

Sanusi Research & Consulting: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2021: Since last month, we have been inundated with messages from the general public in Sierra Leone, urging us to comment on the Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) Consumer Price Index (CPI) whose year-on-year inflation recorded, for the first time since [Read More]

Gibril Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2021: A registered company in Sierra Leone by the name of INTEGRATED TRADING SERVICES (SL) LIMITED, owned and operated by Mrs. Fatima Bio – the First Lady of Sierra Leone and wife of president Bio,  has through dubious means, signed an agreement with [Read More]

Josephine Karianjahi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: Josephine Karianjahi is an international development consultant and podcaster from Nairobi, Kenya. As the Co-Director of Africa Podfest and host of the ‘This I Can Do’ podcast, Ms. Karianjahi fosters social change through collaboration and inclusivity in podcasting. In this article, she [Read More]

Abebe Haile-Gabriel: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2021: The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food insecurity in Africa. However, its success rests on countries’ ratification and implementation, in particular in the agriculture sector. Africa depends [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2021: The latest World Bank report on Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic prospect is bleak. It says that: “Sub-Saharan African countries have managed to keep the COVID-19 virus (coronavirus) under control with relatively low number of cases, the pandemic continues to take a toll on African lives [Read More]