The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2025: The African Institute for Development and Economic Planning, the ECA’s training arm, provided training for 5,000 people in 34 courses in 2024 – more than the 3,000 it initially planned to, said its director, Karima Bounemra Ben Soltane. She said programmes were being designed [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2025: Seeding The Future Foundation and the Institute of Food Technologists are proud to announce the Grand Prize and Growth Grant semifinalists as well as the Seed Grant finalists for the 2024 Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge. A record of nearly 1,200 submissions [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2025: Sierra Leone, a nation that once stood as a beacon of hope in West Africa, is now making headlines for all the wrong reasons. According to the Enhancing Africa’s Response to Transnational Organized Crimes (ENACT) 2023 report, our country has emerged [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced the upcoming ECOTOUR 19-29 Training Support to the Implementation of Tourism Regional Policy. (Photo: Tacugama-chimpanzeee-sanctuary in Sierra Leone). This significant event underscores ECOWAS’s commitment to strengthening the tourism sector across West Africa, fostering economic [Read More]

Robert Hodgson (Euronews): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The European Commission is launching negotiations on what it hails as a first-of-a-kind Clean Trade and Investment Partnership, president Ursula von der Leyen has announced while on a diplomatic mission to Cape Town. “South Africa has everything to become a global [Read More]

Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: Food systems are defined as the networks needed to produce, transform, and distribute food to consumers. These systems encompass everything from agricultural production and supply chains to storage, transportation, and retail. (Photo above: President Bio of Sierra Leone, launching ambitious [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2025: The role of sub-regional multilateral development banks (MDBs) in advancing Africa’s development objectives took centre stage during a high-level panel discussion held on the sidelines of the Fifty-Seventh Session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning, and [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2025: For the first time in Sierra Leone’s history, citizens have been subjected to the most disgraceful and insulting press release from the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA). This pathetic excuse of a statement, blaming the dry season for the country’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2025: Sierra Leone has implemented Meridian, an advanced Commonwealth Secretariat software, to better manage its public debt portfolio of USD 1.08 billion. This upgrade will enable the government to track loans and repayments in real time, improving financial transparency and decision-making. At the government’s request, [Read More]

Dr Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 March 2025: Many of the world’s rare minerals are in the DRC. Western companies are heavily involved in mining them. They prefer a weak government in Kinshasa that they already control to an unstable environment that threatens their investments and access to the [Read More]