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By Abubakarr Bah Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Timothy Musa Kabba, has arrived in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to attend a Ministerial Conference, scheduled to take place in Riyadh on the 8th of November, 2023. The Ministerial Conference of Arab-African Foreign Ministers precedes the 5th Arab-African Summit of November 11, 2023, in Riyadh, which will be attended by Arab leaders and African Heads of State. Saudi Arabia is also hosting the first Saudi-Africa Summit on November 10, 2023. The fifth Arab-African Summit is being hosted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the first time…
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has departed to join colleague Heads of State and Government with other global leaders in the Kingdom of Morocco to attend the 2023 edition of the Africa Investment Forum, AIF. Internationally recognised as Africa’s foremost forum for fostering trade and investment on the continent, the AIF is convened by the African Development Bank in collaboration with the Kingdom of Morocco and will kick off on 8 November 2023 in Marrakech. The AIF is also considered a major investment promotion and deal-breaking platform for African countries, especially in such an important era of economic transformation.…
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has received the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC, scorecard from the United States of America’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Bryan David Hunt, saying that it is always good to have an independent international assessment of his government. Ambassador Hunt said he was pleased to let the President know that in the 2023 MCC scorecard, Sierra Leone did very well in the control of corruption and democratic rights, which was good news for the government, adding that Sierra Leone passed 10 out of the 20 indicators. “This is an excellent way to assess government’s progress.…
ARISE IIP has been recognised among leading global companies and individuals including Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP), a developer and operator of world-class industrial ecosystems across Africa, has been named winner of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Pioneer Award at the at the 14th Reuters Events Responsible Business Awards. The prestigious award ceremony, which celebrates leadership in sustainable business took place in London on 1 November 2023 and brought together over 280 industry leaders from across the world. With over 700 applications coming from 51 countries, ARISE IIP was selected by an independent…
President Bio Julius Mattai British Lawyers representing ARISE IPP have written to the government of Sierra Leone on the purported termination of the Pepel Port and Rail Agreement earlier signed with ARISE IIP, and which the government of Sierra Leone, in a Press Conference, confirmed.“In the Press Conference, GOSL stated that the Lease Agreement was now terminated and that a new lease agreement has been negotiated with, and will be granted to, Kingho. GOSL’s representatives stated that the reason for termination of the Lease Agreement was that Arise purportedly did not take any steps to complete the CPs (or waive them),…
Tired of the embarrassment that the Bio-led government puts the country into both nationally and internationally, the Presidential candidate of the main opposition party in the June 24 2023 elections, Dr. Samura Kamara, has proffered advice over the ongoing controversy in respect of the country’s Pepel Rail and Port facility, including its legal and economic ramifications on the country. See the tweet below: “I listened with keen interest, as an experienced Sierra Leonean in national economic management and nation building, to recent broadcasts by very senior government officials relative to a tripartite investment relationship between government, ARISE and KINGHO. I…
Sierra Leone’s Vice President, Hon. Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, was invited by Senegalese President, Macky Sall, as an honorary guest to the official operationalisation of The Dakar Integrated Special Economic Zone and the inauguration of its Logistics Platform. The event, which took place at Diamniado, marked the first of four investments and is a reminder of Sierra Leone’s Special Economic Zone (SEZ) recently launched by President Bio on April 26th this year at Koya. The SEZ will help Sierra Leone to achieve the BIG FIVE GAME CHANGERS, such as Human Capital Development, to nurture skills for a 21st Century industry, the…
The Government of President Julius Maada Bio has successfully negotiated a win-win package for mobile phone users and operators in Sierra Leone. Mobile phone companies have been agitating for an increase of 120% in the billing of customers, but the government has held on to their demands. After successfully consulting with the mobile phone companies, there will be no 120% increase in tariffs. The inevitable increase will be marginal and way below what the companies wanted. Voice call billing would only be slight, whilst data would be almost negligible. The slight increment would still put Sierra Leone as the 4th…
Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister, Dr David Moinina Sengeh, has officially launched the African Peer Review Mechanism, APRM, Targeted Review Report on Unconstitutional Changes of Government in Sierra Leone, saying that those changes hinder socio-economic development. The Chief Minister also launched the APRM’s Bi-annual Report on Governance Mechanisms for the Implementation of Agenda 2063 and Agenda 2030 with a special focus on Aspiration Three and SDG16. Ambassador Princess Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, APRM’s Lead Panel member for Sierra Leone, said the country had consistently featured among the top-performing Member States with a consistent demonstration of its ability to face challenges, build on its distinctive capacities and embrace the future with…
The Ministry of Finance, through the Fiscal Risk Management Division, has engaged Ministries, Departments and Agencies on Monday 31st, October 2023, to validate the draft Disaster Risk Financing Strategy and Implementation Plan to address disasters in the country. In his opening statement, the Principal Deputy Financial Secretary (PDFS), Samuel E.B Momoh, who Co-Chaired the meeting, thanked the World Bank Team and the Disaster Risk Finance Division based in Washington D.C for their support to the Ministry of Finance in developing the Disaster Risk Financing Strategy and implementation plan. He continued that, over the past 25 years, Sierra Leone has experienced…