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Poor Infrastructure and Dismal Intra-Regional Trade Stifle African Economies
An economist with the Standard Bank Group, Jeremy Stevens, has observed that trade within the continent (AFRICA), accounts for a dismal 10 percent. Travel Trip Nigeria Train According to the...
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Global Financial Integrity’s Report:-Nigeria Leads in Illicit Financial...
In a groundbreaking report which uses World Bank and IMF data to estimate the quantity and patterns of illicit financial flows coming out of developing countries, the Global Financial Integrity (GFI)...
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In Sierra Leone, President Koroma Warns Against Violence & Indiscipline As he...
By: State House Communications Unit (12th August,2013) President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has called on the leadership of the SLPP, including all stakeholders to observe law and order during their party...
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In Sierra Leone, the Police search opposition leader premises
By: Kemo Cham in Freetown ,Tuesday, August 13 2013 Trucks full of policemen from the Criminal Investigations Department have ransacked the private office and residence of Sierra Leone’s former junta...
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Sierra Leone: Response to Dr. A.O. Conteh
By: Dr. Walcut B. Metzger, J.D. (Atlanta, Georgia USA) I hereby present my response to the keynote address delivered by Hon. Justice A. O. Conteh, former, 1st Vice President, Attorney-General and...
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Sierra Leone:-The first “Status of Youth” report. (FULL).
With youth unemployment rate among the highest in West Africa, nation places young people at the centre of its development agenda. Sierra Leone today launched its first ever “Status of the Youth”...
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Sierra Leoneans overwhelmingly reject One-man rule,One-Party Rule and...
Testing our Democratic Health as a Nation , Press Release (JULY 2013) Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone has undergone political transformation since 1996 when the first democratic elections were held. Since...
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The Real Remittance Crisis: Skills, Human Expertise and Intellectual Capital...
By: Ade Daramy* The diaspora’s contribution to Africa is almost exclusively associated with the transfer and impact of financial remittances. Barclay’s recent decision to close around 100 UK accounts...
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Sierra Leone exported $102 million worth of diamonds in the first half of 2013
Sierra Leone exported $102 million worth of diamonds in the first half of 2013, up from $71 million in the same period last year, largely due to higher output from the country’s main producer, the...
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Sierra Leone NGOs, Public Seek Help for Homeless
By: Nina DeVries FREETOWN — Homeless people in Sierra Leone are crying out for help. Last week a landslide caused a bridge to collapse in Freetown, the capital. The colonial-era bridge, known as the...
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Sierra Leone:-Your Dollar or No House !
By: Nyamacoro Silla The property market in Freetown for rental or for buying can only be referred to as cut throat. It appears that there are no regulations, price guidelines or a code of practice...
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Liberia:-Corruption and Accountability Remain Biggest Challenges
ANALYSIS By: Blair Glencorse* A decade ago on August 18th, 2003, the Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement brought Liberia’s 14 year civil war to an end. As this small West African country faded from...
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Liberia:-President Sirleaf/World Bank-Can We Fight Corruption, While Big...
OPINION By: J. YANQUI ZAZA Corruption, as a vice President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf calls Liberia’s number one enemy, is back in the news. It was rampant before her presidency, but now, Liberia has...
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‘Legs together’ law to uphold culture for Kenya’s female bike riders – report
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenyan women could soon be banned from straddling motorcycles or bicycles behind the driver because it is “demeaning” and is undermining traditional culture,...
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Top Trends To Watch In Sub-Saharan Africa’s Extractives Sector (Part I)
By: Rolake Akinkugbe* From the West Africa Transform Margin (WATM) and the Mount Nimba iron-ore deposits straddling Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia to East Africa ‘s gas-rich Rovuma basin and southern...
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Top Trends To Watch In Africa’s Extractives Sector (Part II)
By: Rolake Akinkugbe* Beneficiation, local-content and value-chain policies ‘Beneficiation’, the term used to describe the proportion of the value derived from mineral exploitation which stays in...
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Why African Women Bleach & The Golden Niche Of Marketing
By: Bright Simons* “Bleaching” is the preferred term in many parts of Africa for the use of cosmetics that lighten the tone of the skin. In 2011, the German government funded a study by the World...
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How Eastern Africa Can Avoid The Resource Curse?
By: Ken Opalo* Eastern Africa is the new fossil fuel frontier (for more check out this (pdf) Deloitte report). In the last few years Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique have discovered large...
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Africa’s Energy Security Contingent on Energy Sector Integration
By: Ken Opalo* According to a recent survey by Ernst & Young, 44% of businesspeople in Africa identified inadequate infrastructure as one of the key constraints to doing business in the region....
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Private Equity: Bringing Development Capital To Africa?
By: Adam Robert Green* Africa’s private equity industry has been gaining ground. Last year, despite difficult global economic circumstances, deal value reached $1.1bn with East Africa taking the...
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