Economy & Business

Dr Doma: Siera Leone Telegraph: 13 November 2024: Ladies and gentlemen, buckle up, because Sierra Leone’s government has an exciting new ride for us.  They’re bringing in a plane with a colourful past – a plane that once skidded off a runway, took a little sidetrack into the grass, and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2924: President Julius Maada Bio last Friday, delivered a keynote address at the World Without Hunger Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, stressing the urgent global food insecurity crisis and the need for united efforts to eliminate hunger. Speaking to an assembly of global leaders, development [Read More]

State House Media: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2024: On the margins of the World Without Hunger Conference taking place in Ethiopia, His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, alongside Ethiopian Minister of Agriculture Dr. Girm Amente, toured two significant agricultural sites in Ethiopia, showcasing the nation’s effective [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2024: This week, Sierra Leone welcomes a significant delegation of international investors to explore opportunities in the infrastructure and sustainable tourism sectors, and engage with government officials and entrepreneurs. This visit is likely the largest of its kind in the country’s recent history. The trip [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2024: In yet another disheartening twist for Sierra Leone’s natural resources management, the recent discovery of a stone believed to be diamond in Kerry Town has turned out to be nothing more than a worthless piece of rock. The Ministry of Mines [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2024: The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced the launch of the Bennimix Out growers Activity, a partnership with Bennimix Food Company. This 3-year initiative is aimed at improving food security by increasing agricultural productivity and expanding the supply [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2024: Africa Skills Week (ASW) 2024, held in Accra from October 14 to 18, drew to a triumphant close with a bold call to institutionalize the event as a biennial gathering aimed at promoting dialogue, experience sharing, and collaboration on skills development and employment in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2024: President William Ruto has defended the government’s policy on Public Private Partnerships to finance the national development agenda. The President said PPPs are meant to ensure that the government does not burden Kenyans with more taxes or loans in the financing of development projects. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2024: Climate change, global financial shocks and growing food insecurity are threatening Africa, the world’s fastest-growing continent and hampering achievement of global development goals. To tackle these challenges and speed up the continent’s efforts to achieve these goals, the president of the African Development Bank, [Read More]