Economy & Business

Africa Oil & Gas Awards – 2014

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2014 Africa’s oil and gas industry is making a huge impact on the global market. It is playing a significant part in helping to stem the economic recession that has seen global manufacturing production reduced to historical levels, as oil and raw materials prices [Read More]

Economy & Business

$18 million dollar solar park for Sierra Leone

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]

Economy & Business

Celebrating six wasted years is not funny

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]

Economy & Business

Gender equality is smart economics – says new World Bank Report

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]