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Economy & Business
Leadership change at Sierra Leone’s Commission for Privatisation
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Since the end of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, successive governments have made little effort to fully implement the country’s State Enterprises Privatisation Strategy, which was drawn up with the assistance of the World Bank and DFID. Dogged by political interference, incompetence [Read More]
Economy & Business
Sierra Leone military establishes technical and education college
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s economic recovery is far too reliant on the mining industry, especially iron ore export, which in the last six years has experienced serious turbulence, as a result of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and global economic downturn. If the economy is to recover [Read More]
Politics & Law
African women are more active in politics in some countries than others
Erin Accampo Hern: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Women are less likely than men to participate in politics in Africa. This gender gap affects everything from attending community meetings to contacting elected officials, joining others to raise public issues, expressing a partisan preference and even voting. On average, women [Read More]
Economy & Business
How sub-Saharan Africa can harness its big electricity opportunities
Mercè Labordena: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Electricity lifts people out of poverty and improves their health and standards of living. Yet 1.3 billion of the world’s people don’t have access to it. And more than half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. Getting affordable electricity to the sub-Saharan population [Read More]
Economy & Business
Addressing the foreign direct investment paradox in Africa
Ayodele Odusola: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Africa’s experience on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) presents a paradox. Conventionally, capital is expected to flow from countries with low to high returns. During 2006-2011, the region experienced the highest rate of return on FDI (11.4%) compared to 9.1% in Asia, [Read More]
Politics & Law
Sierra Leone – If president Bio fails, the whole nation fails
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2018: The drums may have fallen silent, the last bugle and trumpets sounded, and the dusty feet washed and oiled for another day. And so, it came to pass that President Julius Maada Bio was successfully inaugurated on the 12th of May 2018. [Read More]
Politics & Law
Sierra Leone – democracy by thuggery and politics of patronage?
Author: Mohamed Bahr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2018: The sickening spectacle of chaos and mayhem that unfolded in the well of parliament during the sitting of the fifth parliament of the second Republic, seems to have been conjured from a gangster movie of dim –witted desperados and bovine bandits. [Read More]
Politics & Law
Sierra Leone parliamentary debate – they came, they spoke, they conquered
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2018: Who would have guessed the debate by Parliament on the President’s speech would have gone off to such a dream start? Social media went into overdrive analysing the maiden speeches of two APC MPs who made a good, if unusual start to [Read More]