Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2020: Senior officials of the Sierra Lone government’s Public Sector Reform Unit (PSRU) today held discussions with members of parliament, about the formation of the long-awaited Wages and Compensation Commission promised by president Bio in 2018. The meeting which was held at the Committee Room [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 November 2020: The United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone – Maria Brewer, today called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio, to congratulate his government after passing thirteen out of the twenty Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard indicators for 2020. In 2019 the Bio-led government passed eleven [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2002: Twenty-four women founders and entrepreneurs, driving economic growth and development for Africa, have been selected as finalists for 2020 Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) Awards. The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum – a leading pan-African entrepreneurship and innovation non-profit, has announced [Read More]

Alhaji K. Tarawally (Laj-K): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2020: The Gambia and many other countries across Africa have already started hosting shows and organizing big local and international events. With the major success already recorded in the fight against Covid-19 in Sierra Leone and as we fastly approach the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2020: President Alpha Conde, 82, won the hotly contested presidential election held last week, according to official results announced Saturday, setting the stage for a controversial third term. He will remain in office to oversee the country’s post-covid economic recovery. A staff team from the International [Read More]

Africanist Press: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2020 Details of an internal audit into financial activities of the Maada Bio administration for the fiscal year 2019, an advance copy of which the Africanist Press has seen, reveal how three government ministries in Sierra Leone collectively spent a total of Le21 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s National Centre for Covid-19 Response (NaCOVERC) yesterday announced that the government has decided with immediate effect, to lift the night time curfew imposed by the president early this year to help curb the transmission and spread of the Covid-19 virus across the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: President Julius Maada Bio last Saturday called on Sierra Leoneans to take up farming so as to help meet the country’s food sufficiency, which could reduce the vast sums of foreign exchange spent on importing rice. He made this call last week at the [Read More]

Tamba Tengbeh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: The Sierra Leone Regional Rice Value Chain Project (RRVCP) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) last week held its inaugural National Steering Committee meeting to discuss the progress.  The Committee is responsible for providing high-level policy advice and oversee project [Read More]