The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2013 South Africa – the only African member of the new global economic block known as the BRICS, has been hosting a two day summit in Durban. Politicians, industrialists and other stakeholders, met in the South African city to discuss the impact of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2013: Liberia is on the verge of becoming a prosperous nation, following decades of poverty and political instability. But it will have to quickly develop its capacity to manage the billions of dollars forecast from mineral export earnings. That was the keynote message from a [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 March 2013 The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), concluded their meeting in Ivory Coast yesterday. They are calling for a more economically and socially – if not politically integrated West Africa. But were they all singing from the same hymn [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph; 17 February 2013: Sierra Leone is one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are significantly lagging behind in achieving key targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), despite millions of dollars being spent by the international community to curb childhood mortality, poverty and illiteracy. And it [Read More]
10 February 2013 The Director of the Regional Integration, Infrastructure and Trade Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – Stephen Karingi, has said that the future of African trade and infrastructure is looking bright. Speaking at the 8th Session of the Committee on Trade, Regional Cooperation [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 February 2013: The World Bank has announced that Cameroon’s economy grew by 5% in 2012, after rising about 4 percent in 2011. Agriculture, construction, and the service industries are responsible for fuelling this growth, together with a significant rise in oil production. However, this economic growth has not improved [Read More]
24 January 2013 Land ownership and the legal right to use that land, can be a highly toxic affair in Africa. In Sierra Leone, there has been a rising trend in the number of murders committed because of land disputes and sheer criminality. But Sierra Leone is not the exception. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 December 2012: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Mr. David Dunn, visited The Gambia during December 3-7, 2012, to assess the impact of the recent directive on exchange rate policy and operations of the country’s foreign exchange market. The team met with the Secretary General [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2012: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia may have a lot in common, most notably, they share a common border. But there is more that distinguishes the three countries than meets the eyes – take the economy, for one. Political instability and an economy battered by [Read More]
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