Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2016 Less than 12% of households in Sierra Leone have access to electricity supply, and even less so among the country’s rural poor. But this week’s announcement by the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 December 2016 Sierra Leone’s President Koroma has said, despite the difficulties that the country is faced with, his government will remain focused to its transformation drive and not allowed to be distracted. President Ernest Bai Koroma spoke on Wednesday, 30th November, 2016, at the Sierra Leone [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2016 President Koroma and key ministers are in China this week to appeal directly and personally to the Chinese political leadership, especially president Xi Jinping. They desperately need help – and they need it fast. Sierra Leone is at risk of falling apart, due to [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2016 President Ernest Bai Koroma is slated to arrive in Beijing on Wednesday, 30th November, 2016, on the invitation of his counterpart President Xi Jinping of China. During this all important visit, both leaders will be discussing ways of further [Read More]
Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2015 On October 3rd 2016, our government finally accepted the reality that our economy is bankrupt, with the publication of a press release from State House. The statement detailed austerity measures they will take to improve revenue mobilization and fiscal sustainability, as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2016 Last Friday, 18th November 2016, Sierra Leone’s finance minister Momodu Kargbo delivered the government’s budget statement for 2017 to parliament. It is a budget the government is hoping will address the growing abject poverty, that over 70% of the country’s population is now suffering. [Read More]
Dr Jonathan Bonopha Tengbe Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2016 This is not the first time Sierra Leone is experiencing austerity measures. But what is certain is that each time the APC is in power, the country will be plunged into economic chaos. But the difference this time is that [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – Beijing China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2016 By 2012, the cost of government subsidies in Ghana had reached one billion Cedis ($500 million). It was expected to rise to 2.4 billion Cedis this year, before the country’s National Petroleum Authority could raise prices. The decision [Read More]
Saad Barrie Sierra Lone Telegraph: 31 October 2016 Sierra Leone government’s proposed new airport has been harshly criticised by some of its key stakeholders, either for its location, huge cost, or method of financing and the lack of transparency in the negotiations with its financiers and contractors – the Chinese. [Read More]
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