Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2019: Vice president of Sierra Leone – Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, last Wednesday launched a new National Corporate Governance Code that will guide and improve the way businesses are governed in the country, through transparency and accountability. The document was launched at the Bintumani International [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 January 2019: Whenever you have a change in government, the new leaders get saddled with the problem of absorbing large masses of people into jobs in the overburdened public sector. Inevitably this involves removing people from positions and replacing them with their own supporters. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2019: The World Bank is on the hunt for a new president. Writing in theconversation.com, Danny Bradlow says that despite calls for the best candidate to be selected regardless of nationality, whoever takes over the World Bank will inevitably be an American. But that shouldn’t [Read More]
Trevor Jenkins Johnston and Abdul Rashid Thomas: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2019: Sierra Leone’s Auditor General has published her report into the country’s public finances and how it was managed by the previous Koroma-led APC government in 2017, before they lost the general and presidential elections in March 2018. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 January 2019: Last Wednesday, 9th January 2019 – A special task-force set up by the Sierra Leone government to investigate industrial unrest at the Sierra Rutile Mining Company, and make recommendations regarding relationship between workers and the company, presented its findings and recommendations to president Julius [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2019: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and West Africa Regional Stock Exchange, Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières, today signed an agreement to cooperate toward improving corporate governance practices of listed companies. Under the agreement, IFC will help BRVM design, develop, draft and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2019: If women don’t have access to quality emergency surgery, they can develop dibilitating complications such as fistula, says Isabella Epiu, writing in theconversation.com, after conducting a research study on the cost-effectiveness of obstetric fistula repair in the East African region. This is her report: [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2019: Entrepreneurship provides many women in Africa with an opportunity to earn an income and establish themselves in business. But they tend to start from a lower base than their male counterparts, with less start-up and investment capital, and little or no collateral security. Writing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2019: The removal of government subsidy on fuel – very often in response to IMF structural adjustment conditionalities, is one of the most controversial policy decisions any government can take in Africa. It is a decision fraught with huge political risk and has the potential [Read More]
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