Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2021: Last Saturday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio visited Sulima in Pujehun District, Southern Province of Sierra Leone, to thank local people for supporting his bid for the presidency. He said that Sulima which is about 406 kilometres from the capital city, Freetown, should become [Read More]
Dr Steven Sam and Dr Ximena Schmidt: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: A new digital platform for rescuing indigenous and traditional knowledge of agriculture and food systems to promote sustainable food security in Sierra Leone, is being established by a team of researchers from Brunel University London, the Open [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2021: UK High Court on Monday dismissed Sierra Leone’s challenge of a 2020 International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) decision over claims by SL Mining after a dispute over its iron ore mining operations in the country. Formal arbitration proceedings have yet to begin as Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2021: WTO members made history yesterday, 15th of February, 2021 when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General. When she takes office on 1 March, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: In December 2020 the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the Freetown City Council (FCC) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) jointly launched the Freetown-Blue Peace project, an initiative that will leverage innovative finance to implement a sustainable water [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone yesterday announced a new Le100 Billion National Enterprise Development Fund, at a well-attended event in the northern town of Magburaka. The fund will support micro, small and medium-sized businesses that are struggling to gain access to finance [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2021: Indisputably, in any nation, the private sector is considered to be the engine of economic growth rather than the public sector, as it creates jobs as well as contributes towards internal mobilization of revenue through the payment of taxes which, in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2021: Following the publication yesterday of allegations made in parliament this week by the opposition APC party parliamentary leader – Chernor M. Bah, accusing the Bio-led government of secretly permitting the Chinese mining company – Kingho Mining Company Ltd to ship millions of dollars worth [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 February 2021: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development Dr. Francis Kai-Kai held a meeting yesterday Friday, with a visiting ECOWAS delegation and members of the National Project Committee (NCP) – a Task Force established for the ECOWAS Logistics Depot construction project in Lungi, Freetown, [Read More]
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