Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 July 2019: After last Friday’s inflation bursting award of Le66 Billion (Sixty-Six Billion Leones) in end of service payment to former president Koroma, his ministers and senior government officials by president Julius Maada Bio, the debate as to whether his decision is prudent continues, and may [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: 4 July 2019: The Lungi Bridge has been a talking point for many Sierra Leoneans lately, and the amount of coverage has been well deserved. While some see it as the right step in the right direction for development, others consider it as a self-aggrandising monument or a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2019: Starting next January 2020, countries within the West African sub-region will be able to use a single currency called the ECO. The new single currency was adopted by the ECOWAS Heads of State and Government last Saturday, in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, after decades of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2019: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has today announced a $60 million investment in Iluka Resources’ Sierra Rutile Limited to partner with the resources company, as it expands its operations in Sierra Leone, where it is the largest tax payer, private employer, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2019: Yesterday’s decision by fuel companies in Sierra Leone to increase the pump price of petrol by more than 21%, has sparked fears of further rise in inflation which currently stands at about 17%. The price of petrol has gone up from Seven Thousand Leones [Read More]

Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2019: “I am delighted to open this investors’ conference on the Tender process for the proposed Lungi Bridge. It is one of our priority areas for investment leading to economic diversification. “We believe infrastructural investment should not burden the country [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2019: There is no doubt that the world we live in today is full of complexities. But more to this, is the irrefutable fact that the world is increasingly becoming divided along several layers of the socio-economic strata – thanks to our political [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 June 2019: President Julius Maada Bio is in Abuja, Nigeria where he is attending the 55th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The 55th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2019: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it has today, 28 June 2019, completed its review of Sierra Leone’s economic performance. And as a result of this review, it has agreed to disburse the sum of $21.62 million to the government of Sierra [Read More]