July 29, 2026

The Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI), with support from UNICEF Sierra Leone and the International Trade Centre (ITC) through the KOICA READY Salone Project, has successfully completed the second cohort of the Learn2Earn Programme, with 60 young Sierra Leoneans graduating after an intensive digital freelancing and employability training programme. Building on the success

Representatives from the public and private sectors African digital payments move $270 billion annually across mobile money platforms and country-specific mobile wallets. Yet the legal infrastructure protecting those transactions does not exist across most of the continent. Sierra Leone is changing that. On the 27th and 28th July, the government convened a public-private dialogue to