Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2018: The IMF Executive Board has conducted its First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) agreed with the Guinean authorities. The completion of its assessment of the country’s economic performance, on June 25th, 2018, has enabled the immediate disbursement of SDR 17.213 million (about [Read More]
Native Consortium and Research Center; Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2018: Dear Your Excellency – We want to start by thanking you once more for the fiscal reforms you have instituted, especially the single treasury account, spending cuts, and leapfrogging our monthly revenue from Le 240 billion to an average [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2018: In his foreword to the Sierra Leone People’s Party Manifesto, 2018, as then Presidential Candidate, President Julius Maada Bio writes that: “Our New Direction therefore offers the people of Sierra Leone a stark choice between the current ‘Business as Usual Status Quo’ of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2018: In his foreword to the Sierra Leone People’s Party Manifesto, 2018, as then Presidential Candidate, President Julius Maada Bio writes that: “Our New Direction therefore offers the people of Sierra Leone a stark choice between the current ‘Business as Usual Status Quo’ of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2018: In 2016 Sierra Leone was classed at 179 out of 188 countries – just nine points from the bottom of the Global Human Development Index. With a population of about 7 million people, 31% of children between the age of 6 months and 59 [Read More]
Rodney Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2018: It is understandable why many are disappointed and frustrated by the government’s decision to lift fuel subsidy. Of course, it is going to make life a bit harder, and that is an indisputable fact. But the truth, the whole truth and nothing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 July 2018: As Africa faces emerging opportunities to help deliver efficient, affordable and reliable electricity to consumers, GE Power’s Grid Solutions business, today unveiled a whitepaper on the “Digitization of Energy Transmission & Distribution in Africa.” The paper explores the opportunities and challenges faced in Sub-Saharan Africa [Read More]
Critical Thinking: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 July 2018: There must be a difference between former electricity minister Henry Macauley’s administration under the APC and Kanja Sesay’s leadership under the New Direction. But it doesn’t seem so. Is Minister Kanja Sesay an accomplice to revenue sabotage? Take a look at the picture [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: The Mayor of Freetown – Mrs Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr yesterday went to State House to present the City Council’s newly designed local tax receipt to president Julius Maada Bio for endorsement. Presenting the newly designed receipt, the mayor called on all residents of Freetown to [Read More]
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