Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Ghana rolls out the red carpet to encourage resettlement in the motherland. In Washington, D.C., in September 2018, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo declared and formally launched the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in the Diaspora, giving fresh impetus to the quest to [Read More]

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Freetown City Council has installed street rubbish collection bins across the capital Freetown, to help combat the problem of waste collection and disposal. Speaking on Radio Democracy FM 98, Mayor Aki-Sawyer said garbage collectors will be collecting garbage from houses and take [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Last Tuesday, senior officials of the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA), met with representatives of the Whitaker Group from Washington DC and Invest Africa from London, to discuss the many investment opportunities that Sierra Leone offers. Both Whitaker Group and Invest [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Corruption affects a government’s ability to get projects completed and stops its ability to transfer resources to people. A fertile environment is created for corruption when budgeting is done in secret. There is a huge amount of secrecy around the budgeting process at every [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: According to latest report by BBC’s Umaru Fofana, Sahn Malen in the Pujenhun district of Sierra Leone where the palm oil producer – Socfin is located, has become a ghost town as local people flee for their lives, after the death of two young [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit. Writing in theconversation.com, Lenore Manderson warns: “Developed economies are able to reduce environmental health risks through improved infrastructure, legal interventions and education. But the [Read More]

Alfred Fornah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2019: Professor Pieter Bon, an educational psychologist and Chairman of the Academy for Sustainable Development in the Netherlands, last week delivered a series of public lectures on Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGS) at five tertiary educational institutions in Freetown. The public lecture series [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2019: Joule Africa Limited, the company responsible for developing Sierra Leone’s Bumbuna hydroelectricity phase two development has received $3.5 million from the European Union’s Electrification Financing Initiative (Electrifi), towards the cost of carrying out work that could see a massive increase in power output from [Read More]

Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2019: Since Sierra Leone gained her independence in 1961, one of the many sectors that have been unceremoniously dumped and left to die and decay is tourism. And to know that there are many less endowed countries that almost entirely depend on tourism [Read More]