Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2020: “The world is shutting down. Places that were once teaming with the hustle and bustle of daily life have become ghost-towns with massive restrictions put on our lives – from lockdowns and school closures to travel restrictions and bans on mass gatherings. It is [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2020: Hold your horses and spare me a second to explain! This is not an SLPP vs APC thing. Obviously APC did not cause Ebola neither did SLPP Corona. Both scourges merely happened under their watch. The prayer of all Sierra Leoneans is [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2020: Sierra Leone’s First Lady – Mrs Fatima Jabbie Bio, who is the wife of the president, is today making the news for all the wrong reasons, after being accused of usurping the powers and authority of government ministerial departments, including education, health and social [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last week announced that the High Court of Sierra Leone sitting in Freetown and presided over by Justice Miatta Samba, on 4th March 2020, convicted Alfred Kallon who is the first accused in the ongoing passport corruption trial involving several [Read More]

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2020: Can NATCOM – Sierra Leone’s mobile telephone regulator, seriously call on Africell mobile phone service provider to do more to tackle the current growing problem of “bill shock” that followed immediately NATCOM slammed a 90% tax on all mobile companies’ promotions? [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2020: Yesterday, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) – Dr Akinwumi Adesina, held talks with Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House, about the bank’s support for the country’s economic development, social progress and poverty reduction initiatives. Presenting the AfDB [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2020: Abject poverty is rising fast in Sierra Leone, and it seems there is little hope of an economic resurgence anytime soon. When president Bio took office in April 2018, one of his first actions which many Sierra Leoneans applauded, was the investigation into the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2020: Sierra Leone’s Deputy Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Robert Chakanda, yesterday launched Action Aid’s Sierra Leone Affiliate Programme (AASL-AP) 2020 Plan and Budget at the Hill Valley Hotel in Freetown. The AASL-AP 2020 Plan and Budget is aimed at promoting the need [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 march 2020: The old adage – ‘what goes up must come down’ came true in Sierra Leone yesterday, when fuel suppliers in the country decided to reduce prices just weeks after they were increased. Yesterday’s drop in prices by an average Five Hundred Leones (Le500) per [Read More]