The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 March 2013 Report from APO says that a new analysis by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), has revealed that the paddy rice production growth rate in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has almost tripled. Rice production has risen from 3.2% per year – before the rice crisis [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2013: Last Wednesday, 6 March 2013, the Chief Executive of Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), resigned from the organisation, after five years of service – driving the former British prime minister’s agenda in Africa. That agenda is fast becoming the subject of serious [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2013 29 public officials, including former deputy minister and a permanent secretary, were indicted last week on various corruption charges. They are accused of stealing millions of dollars from funds meant to support the eradication of malaria in Sierra Leone, as well as other [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2013 Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030, if they can expand their access to more capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods. And African governments should work more closely with agribusinesses to feed [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2013 The cost of bringing Sierra Leone into the twenty-first century, via fibre-optic telecommunications technology is huge. Conservative estimates put the figure at over $100 million. The government has borrowed far more than it can afford, to get this infrastructure in place. But will [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2013 Reports from Freetown, say that Canon Thomas Wilson, Vicar of the Church of Holy Trinity was last Saturday, 23 February, 2013, elected as Bishop-Elect, after what was described as a tense and fierce contest, which took five hours, at the St. George’s Cathedral [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2013 The Centre for Policy Studies at the University of Sierra Leone has announced that it has agreed to undertake a client survey on behalf of the World Bank. The survey will identify the development aspirations of Sierra Leoneans and the role the World [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 March 2013 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Mr. Ray Chambers as his first Special Envoy for Financing of the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the renewal of his mandate on malaria. In this expanded role, Mr. Chambers will promote increased [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 March 2013 The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), concluded their meeting in Ivory Coast yesterday. They are calling for a more economically and socially – if not politically integrated West Africa. But were they all singing from the same hymn [Read More]
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