Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2024: The Education Outcomes Fund (EOF), which is hosted by UNICEF, last Friday announced that its first large-scale project developing new ways to fund and deliver improvements in education in Africa and beyond, has delivered strong results for children after two years of operation in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2024: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors last Friday, approved an $80 million financing package to support Sierra Leone’s efforts to restore macro-fiscal stability and strengthen economic resilience. This financing includes a $60 million International Development Association (IDA) grant as budget support, and an [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2024: Sierra Leone stands on the precipice of despair, its people gasping for breath under the weight of a system built on lies, corruption, and gross mismanagement. President Julius Maada Bio and his government, along with a complicit international community, have treated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2924: The OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund) (www.OPECFund.org) has approved close to US$1 billion in new development financing over the last quarter of 2024, including during its 190th Governing Board meeting in Vienna on Tuesday. These projects will benefit countries across the globe [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2024: The African Development Bank Group has facilitated $2.2 billion in capital mobilization for its transformative Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones Nigeria Phase II project during the Africa Investment Forum. At a packed presidential boardroom on Wednesday 4th December, governors from Nigerian States, leaders from multilateral [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2024: The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (IDFC) on Tuesday, announced the first disbursement out of a $292 million loan to support CECA SL Generation Limited, an entity that will construct and operate a 105MW combined-cycle power plant in Freetown, Sierra Leone through a project [Read More]
Gbenga Oyebode: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 December 2024: For decades, Africa has grappled with a legacy of colonialism, political instability, and uneven economic development, leading to perceptions of the continent as one in need of external assistance and causing the label ‘the Dark Continent’ to take on a new connotation. [Read More]
Paul van Zijl: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 December 2024: Paul van Zijl, Group CEO at Starsight Energy believes it is. He maintains that we must apply a contextual lens and move away from all-or-nothing thinking, employing a holistic, phased and sustainable approach to the continent’s energy mix. This is what [Read More]
Siera Leone Telegraph: 09 December 2024: One decade after the deadliest Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in history wreaked havoc on the country and its health care workforce – Sierra Leone will become the first country, among the three most severely affected ten years ago by the West Africa Ebola [Read More]
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