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]
The sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2013 An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission visited Conakry last week to discuss and review the country’s program supported by a US$194.99 million Extended Credit Facility, which was approved by the IMF Executive Board on the 24 February 2012. At the end of its [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2013 The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a US $300 million loan to finance the Nigerian transport sector, and its Economic Governance Reform Program and Country Strategy Paper (CSP) for the period 2013-2017. In essence, the loan will [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2013 Leaders of the African Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group have pledged close collaboration to support development. The leaders emphasized the need for coordinated efforts to achieve the Millennium Development [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2013 Royal Philips Electronics has launched “Fabric of Africa” – a collaborative campaign aimed at improving healthcare access across the continent, through public-private partnerships. The main intention of the campaign is to develop meaningful partnerships with local and international stakeholders to improve healthcare delivery. [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2013 Sierra Leone has no business being poor, if only government can ensure that tax payers, especially large corporations, foreign owned companies, and local businesses with connections in high places pay equitable and appropriate taxes, and that government uses the tax it collects for [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2013 In less than a week, the African student associations of Columbia University – USA, will assemble for a joint presentation of the 10th Annual African Economic Forum (AEF) on the 1st and 2nd March 2013, at Columbia’s Morningside Campus in Harlem, New York. [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February, 2013 DHL Express (http://www.dhl.com), the world’s leading international express services provider, has expanded its network of DHL Service Points in Sub-Saharan Africa from the initial 300 to over 1000, in just a few short months. The move is an aggressive expansion into the market, [Read More]
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