The Management of TRANSCO CLSG today issued a statement in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, expressing regret that on November 29, 2022, at 5:18 PM, their 225/33 kV 40 MVA Transformer, installed at the CLSG Kenema Substation in Tiloma, tripped due to the activation of its Bulcholz Relay. This led to the loss of stable power in […]
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The World Bank Group Board of Executive Directors Monday 5 December 2022 approved the Second Inclusive and Sustainable Growth Development Policy Financing (DPF) – a $100 million grant which will support the Government of Sierra Leone to improve natural resource governance, enhance inclusiveness, and strengthen accountability and transparency in public finance. This DPF, the
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President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra leone is in spending four days in London, United Kingdom, first to share his leadership strategies with the House of Lords on the COVID-19 pandemic and the current global economic crisis and later to meet private sector investors, according to State House. “As the pandemic spread and we
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Sierra Leone and many African countries at the Cop27 in the Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh have called on developed nations to stop talking and start acting on promises of financial support to help them tackle the fallout from climate change. Read the original story here The continent, which is home to
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“For you to have sustained economic development, you have to promote the economic emancipation of women,” said Sierra Leone’s Bank Governor, Professor Kaifala Kallon. Delivering a keynote address at the launching of the public relations roll out of the upgraded Sierra Leone Collateral Registry, yesterday Thursday 3 November at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Aberdeen the
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Wildcat Petroleum Monday announced that it has completed a study of the petroleum potential of deepwater blocks offshore in Sierra Leone following an agreement with the country’s Petroleum Directorate, which also accepted the finds. The company says that “the work confirmed our initial ideas regarding the good hydrocarbon potential of the deep offshore [Sierra
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Written by Babatunde A. Ahonsi, UN Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone Sierra Leone is among the 10 percent of countries in the world that are most vulnerable to the adverse consequences of climate change, and presently one of the least able to cope with the effects. Unpredictable weather patterns, severe flooding, mudslides, and associated crop
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Sierra Leone’s debt-to-GDP is projected to trend around 72 per cent in 2023 and 71 per cent in 2024 by JAMES NDWARU Whereas a complexity of concerns presages a landscape beset with considerable difficulties in the year ahead, Sierra Leone’s debt-to-GDP burden should be of particular concern to leaders and key stakeholders. Sierra Leone stands among
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Sierra Leone has passed 11 out of the 20 indicators on the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, the scorecard for 2023, making it the country’s fourth consecutive pass since the government of President Julius Maada Bio in 2018. The compacts are five-year agreements through which the United States Government provides grants to partner countries, Sierra
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The Government of Sierra Leone is organising its first National Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Fair, NYEEF, that will create a space for networking and learning for over 500 young women and men aged 18-35, drawn from across the country. This three-day event, which will be held from 15-17 November 2022, at the Freetown International
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