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7th September 2021

Insights into Sierra Leone’s cashew sector from Red River Foods confirms export potential

With 85% of its cashew orchards due to reach maturity by 2025 in a booming global market, Sierra Leone’s cashew sector has real export and processing potential. At a roundtable…

17th August 2021

SLAJ launches professional network to support independent reporting on business and economic issues

A new professional network, launched on 4 August by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), aims to boost independent news production on business, financial and economic issues. The Business…

12th August 2021

Successful engagement with the financial sector key to institutionalising public–private dialogue in Sierra Leone

Over 40 representatives of Sierra Leone’s financial sector came together on 4 August, 2021 to kick off a ground-breaking series of sectoral public–private dialogues (PPD) intended to institutionalise private sector…

27th April 2021

Invest Salone adapts programme resources to ensure economic resilience beyond COVID-19

Invest Salone, working with Sierra Leone’s private sector on adapting to the new market circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, is also adjusting to a significantly less predictable economy and limited…

8th March 2021

A fairer labour market for women in Sierra Leone

Women in Sierra Leone participate in the labour market at a similar rate to men, but seldom on an equal footing, according to Invest Salone, the FCDO-funded private sector development…

11th February 2021

A coordinated private sector brings key reforms to the 2021 Finance Act

When a government engages in consultation – or better yet, real dialogue – with the private sector as it formulates new laws and regulations, prospects grow for an outcome that…

26th January 2021

Invest Salone collaborates with the National Revenue Authority on investment climate reforms

Invest Salone is collaborating with the National Revenue Authority (NRA) to support reforms aimed at improving the investment climate in Sierra Leone. The collaboration was initiated in 2020 by Invest…

17th December 2020

Invest Salone briefs Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office via a virtual tour

Senior executives of Invest Salone, the UK aid flagship trade and investment programme in Sierra Leone, briefed Sir Philip Barton, the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office…

6th November 2020

Sierra Leone’s fishing industry receives boost

Sierra Leone has received four inshore patrol craft donated by the Republic of South Korea to help the country to protect its territorial waters from illegal fishing by foreign vessels.…

8th October 2020

Roundtable for financial investors in Sierra Leone

On 18 September 2020, Invest Salone hosted a Development Finance Institution (DFI) Roundtable, one of the first of its kind in Sierra Leone. This high-level discussion provided a collaborative platform for…