Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2018: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance – Jacob Jusu Saffa today 11th October 2018 signed a $40 million agreement with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, for the installation of a 50MW Solar plant in Sierra Leone. It all started at the African Development Bank [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2018: After six months of uncertainty as to whether the newly elected government of Sierra Leone, led by president Julius Maada Bio (Photo), may decide to resuscitate the much criticised Mamamah airport construction project established by the outgoing APC government, came a letter few days [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2018: Africa’s top businessman – Aliko Dangote, has called for conscious efforts at deepening African regional market by African investors and governments, so as to aid rapid growth and development of the Continent’s economy. Speaking in London in a “One to One Conversation” at the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2018: Today, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report detailing progress and pathways to liming global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Responding to the report, Mr. Apollos Nwafor, Pan Africa Director of Oxfam International said: “Climate change has set our planet on fire, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2018: Entrepreneurship is central to Africa’s economic growth and is one of the keys to unlocking job opportunities for young people across the continent. Mastercard Foundation in partnership with the African Leadership Academy (ALA) (AfricanLeadershipAcademy.org) is pleased to announce that 20 of Africa’s youngest and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2018: AccorHotels – the world’s leading travel and lifestyle group, has announced a record year of development in Africa. The company made this announcement at the African Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) in Nairobi. Beginning with its 50% stake in the Mantis Group in April, followed [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2018: The Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences including Climate Change (PAUWES) celebrated the third graduating class of both the engineering and policy tracks of its Masters programmes in Water and Energy. The graduating class made up of 79 students from across [Read More]

Efam Awo Dovi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2018: Ken Ukaoha knows something about infrastructure and intra-Africa trade. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Kenaux International Concept, a shoe and garment manufacturing company based in Aba, southeast Nigeria. Kenaux’s products sell in Nigeria and other African countries, [Read More]

Richard Munang & Robert Mgendi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2018: Ratifications are moving ahead, if slowly, on the newly signed African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)—the world’s largest free trade agreement (with the most member countries) since the founding of the World Trade Organization. The African Union and its [Read More]