The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2014 Six megawatts of electricity may be a drop in the ocean for a country whose non-industrial consumer needs is estimated at 500 megawatt (MW). But for Sierra Leone, where every watt of electricity produced, can make the difference between life and death, an [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2013 As government ministers and ruling party chiefs celebrate six years in power in Sierra Leone, there are millions of hungry stomachs and unemployed poor citizens roaming the streets in search of a livelihood. Sierra Leone is teetering on the edge and once again becoming [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 September 2013: “The ideal of equality before the law and equality of economic opportunity isn’t just wise social policy. It is smart economic policy,” says World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. “When women and men participate in economic life on an equal footing, they can [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2013 The latest report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published last Friday, says that Sierra Leone’s economy will grow by 13% in 2013, falling two percentage points from the 15% economic growth achieved in 2012. And with African Minerals Ltd., – Sierra Leone’s [Read More]
Teddy Foday-Musa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2013: Reports of the suspension of Sierra Leone by the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board, was greeted with disappointment and dissatisfaction by the people of Sierra Leone as well as the Government. The decision was made, “following the submission of Sierra Leone’s [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 August 2013 Sierra Leone’s development is now at a major transformational stage, thanks to our readiness for change, as a people. From once a country in an era of war, political instability, corruption-ridden, to one that pushed towards change some [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 August 2013 Sierra Leone has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in sub-saharan Africa. Despite the implementation of various initiatives costing millions of dollars, aimed at the rehabilitation and training of young people into employment, unemployment in Sierra Leone remains intractably high, at over [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 July 2013 Many Sierra Leoneans are perplexed by the preponderance of government ministers managing the affairs of state, yet unable to solve the myriad of economic and social problems facing the country. They say that ministers lack direction. But many also believe that there is [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2013 Sierra Leone’s electricity problem could become a thing of the past, if the newly announced World Bank and DFID’s $16 million funded project succeeds. But where did it all go so badly wrong? Many in Sierra Leone believe that the hosting of the [Read More]
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