FCC Media: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2024: Between March to April this year, Freetown City Council identified 72 flooding flashpoints across the city. To improve community resilience and reduce the risks of flooding in these sites, FCC is collaborating with residents in those communities to remove silt and garbage [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2024: The African Development Bank and technology giant Intel have formalized their cooperation to transform the African digital ecosystem. The partnership aims to equip 3 million Africans and 30,000 government officials with AI skills. Sealed at the recent African Development Bank’s Annual Meetings in Nairobi, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2024: The World Bank on Monday, June 3rd, commenced a two-week mid-term review of its funded Accountable Governance for Basic Service Delivery Project (AGBSDP) in Sierra Leone. According to a World Bank statement, this two-week evaluation is engaging approximately ten government ministries, departments, and agencies, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2024: Speaking in New York two days ago about the growing and desperate climate emergency that is driving up temperatures and destroying economies – especailly in poor countries, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on world leaders to take immediate action, and warns: “It is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2024: A new campaign is calling for youth with disabilities in Sierra Leone to be included in an upcoming UN Summit that will decide their future. In September 2024 world leaders will come together for the Summit of the Future in New York, to accelerate [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2024: The US embassy in Freetown yesterday said that it “applauds the strong and unambiguous statement by the SLPP and APC condemning all forms of hate speech and urging constructive political discourse in the run-up to the release of the final report of the Election [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2024: Representatives from last year’s investment delegation of Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) have returned to Sierra Leone to support private sector lending. Building on the achievements of the 2023 investment delegation, the aim of the week-long visit is to support increased lending to Sierra Leone’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2024: The World Bank Board last Wednesday, approved a $74 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to enhance climate-resilient transport connectivity and agricultural market access in Sierra Leone. (Photo above: EU funded road network in Sierra Leone). The Sierra Leone Connectivity and Agricultural Market Infrastructure [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2024: Flying out of Sierra Leone few days ago for South Korea, on what has been dubbed as one of President Bio’s vanity trips abroad that have so far cost the nation – one of the poorest in the world, over $28 million since coming [Read More]
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