Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2021: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $50 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) to improve access to electricity in Sierra Leone and enhance institutional capacity and commercial management of the sector. The project will also be co-financed with [Read More]
Basita Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2021: Diamonds are forever, but constitutions are not. No Constitution is meant to last in perpetuity. That is probably why Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1789 and said, “…it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution or [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2021: Pula, an African InsureTech service provider that specialises in digital and agricultural insurance to derisk millions of smallholder farmers across Africa, has closed a $6mn Series A fundraise. The Series A fund was led by TLcom Capital, with the participation of Women’s World Banking. [Read More]
Amin Key Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2021: The European Union Office in Freetown has announced that it is giving 18 million Euros to the government of Sierra Leone to help pay for the country’s loan repayment to the IMF. In a statement published last Monday, the EU said [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2021: Sierra Leone has again progressed two places upwards in the Transparency International’s Global Corruption Ranking, moving from 119 in 2019 to 117 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2020 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI). The country also maintains its score of thirty-three, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2021: Yesterday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio attended the state funeral of the late Flt Lt Jerry J. Rawlings, the first President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana who passed away on 12 November 2020, aged 73. In his tribute to the late former President [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2021: Help has finally arrived for Etta and her twenty year-old daughter, after world-wide publicity by the media including the Sierra Leone Telegraph about her sad story of love, estrangement, and abandonment by her husband in the island of Jamaica. But thankfully, in the last [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021: Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio, yesterday called on UN member states to mobilise support for the UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), and has himself pledged $1 million, which he said Sierra Leone will pay annually at a rate of $200,000 over the next [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2021: The USAID-funded West Africa Trade & Investment Hub has announced its first co-investment project with Stichting Cordaid (Cordaid), managed by Cordaid Investment Management B.V. (CIM), to increase access to finance by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Burkina Faso, [Read More]
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