Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2019: On 7th October 2019, SL Mining Limited – a wholly owned subsidiary of the American owned Gerald Group, said it received a letter from the government of Sierra Leone, ‘purporting’ to cancel with immediate effect, SL Mining’s large scale mining licence in the country. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2019: Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa remained slow through 2019, hampered by persistent uncertainty in the global economy and the slow pace of domestic reforms, according to the 20th edition of Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly economic update for the region. Overall growth in Sub-Saharan [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2019: Today, Tuesday, 8 October 2019, president Julius Maada Bio laid the foundation stone for the start of construction of the SONOCO Plant for the manufacturing of baking equipment in Wellington, east of Freetown. When completed, the complex will also include a skills training centre [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2019: Sierra Leone’s vice president Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, yesterday urged the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development to prioritise their investment in shared regional infrastructure, so as to accelerate economic development in West Africa. Delivering his keynote address at the 17th Session of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2019: A new report from the International Bar Association (IBA) Access to Justice and Legal Aid Committee and the World Bank claims that, improving legal aid services is as important for economic growth as providing functioning hospitals, schools and roads. The report, A Tool for Justice: [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2019: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Communications, Mohamed Rahman Swaray, has appealed to colleague ministers of ECOWAS, for Sierra Leone to benefit from projects and programs supported by the ECOWAS Commission that will enhance Sierra Leone’s Digital Transformation Roadmap. The Sierra Leone Digital Transformation [Read More]

Murray Sandy: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2019: In 1991, the United Nations decided to upgrade Cape Verde from a Least Developed Country (LCD) to the enviable designation of Middle Income Country (MIC) status. (Photo: Cape Verde). Cape Verde is a former Portuguese colonized island nation, located off the coast [Read More]

Sahr Nouwah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2019: While I will accept that Sierra Leone is poor and our people are suffering, I will also want to present some food for thoughts. Agreeing that investors are leaving and we are at a point where our economy seems to be struggling [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2019: Who serves the beer? I recall while at Sierra Rutile, a complicated friend of mine was in a group being taught about writing job descriptions. The instructor started off with simple questions like, what does a driver do? what is the main [Read More]