Economy & Business

Dr Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: Many of the world’s rare minerals are in the DRC. Western companies are heavily involved in mining them. They prefer a weak government in Kinshasa that they already control to an unstable environment that threatens their investments and access to the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), the European Investment Bank (EIB), with the support of the European Union (EU), today announce a €100 million financial partnership to support climate action and environmental sustainability projects in the ECOWAS region. A project with a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa’s foremost trade development Bank, last week in Mombasa, Kenya, ratified a series of initiatives designed to support Kenya’s industrialisation and export-led development agenda. Under the terms of the initiatives, formalised at a signing ceremony with the Kenyan authorities, Afreximbank [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: On the sidelines of the 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African Heads of State, Government and Business Leaders convened for a Presidential Breakfast Dialogue to address the continent’s financing and investment gaps. The event [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2025: The European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed to join Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) in financing a $750 million Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund (ICRF). This landmark initiative will accelerate climate adaptation and sustainable infrastructure across Africa. As part of this commitment, the EIB today confirmed [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2025: More than 250 African city leaders – including mayors, city officials, national policymakers, investors, and business leaders – will gather in Nairobi today for the Green & Resilient UrbanShift Africa Forum, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), hosted by C40 Cities (Photo above: [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2025: Africa’s economic performance is showing signs of improvement but remains vulnerable to global shocks, according to the 2025 Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook (MEO) report released by the African Development Bank on Friday. The report, unveiled on the sidelines of the 38th Ordinary Session of [Read More]

Deodat Maharaj: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2025: The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development could catalyse coordinated action to close the financing gap and set the stage for a STI-driven transformation in the world’s poorest countries. (Photo above: Deodat Maharaj). The stark reality is that just over 250 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2025: The fact that Africans still require visas to enter most African countries, remains one of the starkest contradictions to the continent’s aspirations for regional integration. In this ninth edition of the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African [Read More]