The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2013 Report from the White House says that the leaders of four African nations will meet with President Barack Obama next week in Washington. The meeting, which takes place on 28 March 2013, will include Presidents- Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, Macky Sall [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2013 In November last year, the British Foreign Office announced the appointment of Mr. Peter West, as the new British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone. He has replaced Ian Hughes. Receiving the new High Commissioner at State House this week, president Koroma said: “We aim [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: 15 March 2013 Report from APO says that a new analysis by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), has revealed that the paddy rice production growth rate in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has almost tripled. Rice production has risen from 3.2% per year – before the rice crisis [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2013: Last Wednesday, 6 March 2013, the Chief Executive of Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), resigned from the organisation, after five years of service – driving the former British prime minister’s agenda in Africa. That agenda is fast becoming the subject of serious [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2013 29 public officials, including former deputy minister and a permanent secretary, were indicted last week on various corruption charges. They are accused of stealing millions of dollars from funds meant to support the eradication of malaria in Sierra Leone, as well as other [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2013 Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030, if they can expand their access to more capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods. And African governments should work more closely with agribusinesses to feed [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2013 The cost of bringing Sierra Leone into the twenty-first century, via fibre-optic telecommunications technology is huge. Conservative estimates put the figure at over $100 million. The government has borrowed far more than it can afford, to get this infrastructure in place. But will [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2013 Reports from Freetown, say that Canon Thomas Wilson, Vicar of the Church of Holy Trinity was last Saturday, 23 February, 2013, elected as Bishop-Elect, after what was described as a tense and fierce contest, which took five hours, at the St. George’s Cathedral [Read More]
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