News in Perspective

President of Ivory Coast honours Kandeh Yumkella

Anthony Abdul Karim Kamara (Jnr) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2013 The outgoing Director- General of UNIDO – Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella has been awarded the Commander of the National Order of Cote d’Ivoire, by the Ivorian President – Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday, 25 June 2013. The honour was [Read More]

News in Perspective

Sierra Leone’s Kandeh Yumkella stepping down from UNIDO

Anthony Kamara (Jnr) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2013 After seventeen successful years, leading one of the UN’s pivotal  agencies – UNIDO, Sierra Leonean born Kandeh Yumkella (Photo) is stepping down as Director-General. Historians recall that at the gloomy depth of World War II, Winston Churchill sought to rally [Read More]

Economy & Business

Ending electricity outage in Freetown takes a step closer to reality

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2013 Sierra Leone’s electricity problem could become a thing of the past, if the newly announced World Bank and DFID’s $16 million funded project succeeds. But where did it all go so badly wrong? Many in Sierra Leone believe that the hosting of the [Read More]

News in Perspective

Sierra Leone: Journalists threatened with “sanitisation” of media landscape

The International Press Institute (IPI) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2013 The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed serious concern today over the future of press freedom in Sierra Leone, following inflammatory statements made by Sylvia Olayinka Blyden (Photo: Left of former Nigerian President Obasanjo), special executive assistant to President [Read More]

Economy & Business

Help for finance ministry officials with better economic growth forecasting

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2013 The government of Sierra Leone has set itself an ambitious, though necessary goal of attracting significantly more foreign direct investments and to increase economic growth and employment opportunities. But this cannot be achieved by putting out misleading and exaggerated statistics and economic indicators. While [Read More]