In Africa’s banking sector, risk assessment has long hinged on collateral property or assets pledged to secure loans. For many women entrepreneurs, systemic barriers to property ownership have meant exclusion from finance. Now, a new model is reshaping that reality.
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Sierra Leone’s healthcare transformation gained a major financial boost yesterday as the Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health, signed a $4.3 million agreement to complete three tertiary hospitals and launch an oxygen production facility in Kerry Town.
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Sierra Leone’s fiscal accounts for 2025 highlight a government still grappling with structural imbalances, as recurrent obligations continue to dominate expenditure while capital investment remains persistently underfunded.
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Sierra Leone’s 2025 fiscal accounts reveal a government still heavily constrained by recurrent expenditure, with wage costs and operational spending continuing to dominate the budget and crowd out development investment, despite an overall shortfall in execution.
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Sierra Leone sharply expanded its reliance on domestic debt markets in 2025, leaning heavily on short‑term treasury bills to finance widening fiscal pressures, according to the government’s latest financial statements.
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