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Endeavor Energy has inked an agreement with Joule Africa to jointly develop and build the 202MW Bumbuna Phase 2 hydroelectric scheme in Sierra Leone. The $700m project will add to the existing 50MW at Bumbuna Phase 1 (pictured), which was completed and commissioned in 2009. https://renews.biz/54340/endeavour-signs-for-202mw-hydro/

Two Hempfield High School teens recently traveled to Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, to share the game of lacrosse to the children of The Agape Preparatory School in the village of Goderich. As founders of the FootSouls Lacrosse Foundation, Megan Brogan and Zach Ward delivered the more than 200 pairs of shoes/cleats, 20-plus lacrosse sticks, […]

At the age of 13 Ishmael Beah went from living as a normal boy growing up in Sierra Leone to a child solider. On Nov. 11 he shared his story. The university welcomed The New York Times best-selling author and civil rights advocate to tell his story and talk about his book “A Long Way Gone” […]

StockMarketWire.com – Sula Iron & Gold, a multi-commodity exploration company focussed on Sierra Leone, has begun further exploration work to establish the extent of gold mineralisation at its wholly owned 153 sq km Ferensola Project, located in the northern part of the Sula-Kangari Greenstone Belt in Sierra Leone – See more at: https://www.stockmarketwire.com/article/4708806/Sula-start-further-exploration-work-in-Sierra-Leone.html#sthash.88QMxtx9.dpuf

FREETOWN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a donation of US$4.5 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. Tuberculosis and Malaria through Sierra Leone’s National AIDS Secretariat and Ministry of Health and Sanitation to fund vital nutritional support for people affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/63039

Sierra Leone’s top diplomat has said that the Third Africa Arab Summit in the State of Kuwait on 19th and 20th November, 2013 is expected to discuss the possibility of creating an Arab-African common market. Dr. Samura M. Kamara (in photo) who joined Arab and African foreign ministers in the oil-rich Gulf State on Sunday, […]

The Isle of Man’s role in rescuing poor coastal communities in West Africa from the blight of illegal fishing by foreign trawlers has been highlighted at an international conference on environmental crime. The provision of a fisheries protection vessel and ongoing advice to Sierra Leone, as well as the installation of a satellite monitoring system […]

Real Gross Domestic Product growth averaged some seven per cent, driven by output expansion in agriculture, mining, and services; as well as the scaling-up of infrastructure investment. Nonetheless. important impediments to broad-based growth remain, including large infrastructure gaps, insufficient energy supply, and limited access to safe water and sanitation. https://www.spyghana.com/consultation-imf-sierra-leone-concluded/

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development arrived in Saudi Arabia’s Port City of Jeddah on an official visit on Wednesday, 13th November, 2013. On Thursday, Dr. Kaifala Marah who is also Sierra Leone’s Governor to the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) met with the President of the IDB, Dr. Mohamed Ali Al Madani, the […]

On October 21, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Sierra Leone,1 and approved a three–year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) in support of the authorities’ economic and financial program for 2013-2016 (see Press Release No. 13/410). Sierra Leone has made significant progress in macroeconomic stabilization […]