Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: AXIAN Group and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched a major women’s financial inclusion programme to expand access to finance and business support for more than 34,000 women-led enterprises in five African countries. Supported by the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa (AFAWA) initiative and the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), the programme aims to address one of the biggest constraints facing women-owned businesses in Africa – limited access to finance. Africa has the highest rate of female entrepreneurship worldwide, yet women entrepreneurs still face an estimated $49 billion financing gap. The programme will be implemented through AXIAN Group’s digital financial services platforms, Mixx (https://apo-opa.co/4xtzsuw) and Mvola, which integrate digital lending, financial literacy training, business development services and digital inclusion initiatives to help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses and improve their access to formal financial services. It comprises two...

Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: On 27 August 2026, the High Court issued an interim injunction restraining APC National Chairman Osman Foday Yansaneh and National Secretary General Lansana Dumbuya from performing their executive functions. On paper, this may look like a procedural order intended to preserve matters until the substantive case is heard. In practice, its effect is far more serious. It comes close to a functional decapitation of Sierra Leone’s main opposition party. An interlocutory injunction is ordinarily meant to preserve the status quo. It should prevent irreversible harm while the court determines the dispute. But where an order prevents a political party’s principal officers from convening meetings, passing resolutions and superintending party affairs, under threat of contempt, fines or imprisonment, preservation begins to look very much like paralysis. That is especially troubling because the APC was already in the middle of an important internal...