Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 June 2019: A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Mika Saito, visited Monrovia June 12 – 24, 2019 to discuss possible financial support under the Extended Credit Facility. According to the IMF, the mission supports the authorities’ objectives of restoring macroeconomic balance in [Read More]
James Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2019: Sierra Leone’s newly appointed minister of planning and economic development – Dr. Francis Kai-Kai, has vowed to go all out to ensure that, under his leadership, national planning and economic development processes follow a ‘people-centred’ approach. Speaking in an exclusive interview, he [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2019: Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister – Professor David Francis led a high powered government delegation to Russia last week, where they attended a three-day Afreximbank Annual conference, taking place in Moscow. The theme of the conference was ‘Harnessing Emerging Partnership in an Era of Rising [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2019: The government of Sierra Leone can once again begin to breathe a sigh of relief, following the announcement by SL Mining Limited – a wholly owned subsidiary of Gerald Group, that its first shipment of iron ore concentrate – branded ‘Marampa Blue’ to China, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 June 2019: “We believe infrastructural investments should not burden the country with huge debt. They should be financed in a way that the public and future generations are not liable for that debt………So we are not going to build a bridge or an airport for which [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), yesterday presented a cheque for 7.5 billion Leones to President Dr Julius Maada Bio at a ceremony in State House, Freetown. This Le 7.5 billion is part of a whopping 16 Billion Leones of stolen cash, so far recovered [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2019: On Tuesday, 11 June 2019, the twinned-sister cities of Freetown and Hull City UK, took their partnership to another level with the visit of Hull City Mayor – Steven Wilson to Sierra Leone, where he met both the Mayor of Freetown and president Julius [Read More]
Josephus Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2019: It is a sad story that today, National Petroleum (NP) which is, or should be a national petroleum company, is collaborating with other international petroleum companies based in Sierra Leone, to blackmail Government into increasing the pump price of fuel. Despite the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2019; Hardly a week goes by these days, without news of a public official in Sierra Leone entering into an out of court settlement with the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to repay stolen public funds. Whilst some of the monies involved may be fairly small, [Read More]
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