Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: Two weeks ago, August 7, 2025, President Julius Maada Bio delivered his speech during the State Opening of Parliament. He presented what he called the “Big Five” priorities of his government: electricity, water, roads, education, and healthcare. While the speech aimed [Read More]
Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: Development is not just an economic issue; “it is also about how power and social differences are organised and managed for the benefit of all… To talk meaningfully about development is to talk about democracy and social cohesion,” writes Yusuf Bangura [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: The African Development Bank (AfDB) will play a key role in the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) taking place in Yokohama, Japan from 20-22 August. This year’s conference takes place at a critical time as Africa seeks to close investment gaps [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2025: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Group of Twenty cooperation broke new ground with the release of a new publication examining the potential for nuclear power in Africa. The IAEA launched the publication at a side event co-organized with the Clean Energy Ministerial and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) – the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has published its annual Development Impact Report, presenting a comprehensive, data-driven account of AFC’s cumulative development outcomes across Africa. The report reveals that AFC-backed projects have to date added over US$50 billion to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Dr Akinwumi Adesina says his passion to mobilize global capital for Africa’s development will continue way beyond his presidency of the African Development Bank, which ends on 1st September 2025. (Photo above: Afdb President Akinwumi Adesina and his wife, Mrs Grace Yemisi Adesina, with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) last week Monday, 28th July 2025, announced a two percent reduction in the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 21.75%, alongside cuts to the Standing Lending Facility Rate (SLFR) to 14.75% and the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, last Tuesday, 29th July 2025, presented his government’s 2025 Supplementary Budget (The Supplementary Appropriation Act 2025) to Parliament. The Supplementary Appropriation Act 2025 is an adjustment of the 2025 Budget that was approved by Parliament [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Shelter Afrique Development Bank (ShafDB) has announced the signing of a strategic agreement with the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) to support its transformative capital increase initiative. Effectively, BADEA has approved a landmark USD 120 million to support the capitalization program [Read More]
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