Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 July 2025: Foreign aid is no longer a viable solution for Africa’s growing development needs. The continent’s annual Sustainable Development Goal financing shortfall has reached $1.3 trillion, and leaders are increasingly clear-eyed about the limits of donor-driven models. At a high-level session on the margins of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 July 2025: The World Bank issued today the 2025 Equatorial Guinea Economic Update which analyses the country’s recent economic developments and outlook and highlights the importance of a comprehensive accounting of wealth and the role of human, physical, and natural capital in shaping sustainable growth and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 July 2025: The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved two new investments for critical minerals projects in sub-Saharan Africa this month. The funding aims to accelerate economic development across the region while reinforcing US supply chains for minerals essential to the country’s defense, energy, security [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 July 2025: The global professional body for structural engineers, the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE), has joined with the Commonwealth Engineers’ Council (CEC) to share and co-create engineering expertise towards a sustainable built environment. (Photo above – courtesy of Solent University). IStructE’s new Pan-African Structural Engineering [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2025: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has released its 2025 Forum Report Financing The Africa We Want, combining the most relevant data and figures on Africa’s financing landscape with key outcomes from the three days of debates at the 2025 Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW), held in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2025: President John Dramani Mahama has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to developing vital infrastructure, announcing the launch of extensive road construction and rehabilitation projects across the Western North Region. This will be carried out under his flagship ‘Big Push Infrastructure Programme’, a $10 billion initiative [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2025: The first Africa-London business summit will be held next year, Sir Sadiq Khan has announced during a trade mission to the continent, the BBC reports. The mayor said the summit will be hosted in London with the aim of tapping into the “huge economic [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2025: The World Bank Board of Directors approved the Second Kenya Social and Economic Inclusion Project (KSEIP2) which will strengthen the country’s social protection systems and scale up safety net support to twelve million citizens, including elderly, women, adolescents, children and other age specific vulnerable [Read More]