Mirova, an ESG-focused investment firm and affiliate of French investment manager Natixis, has provided USD 20 million in long term debt financing to ManoCap Energy, a Ghana-based independent power producer (IPP). The deal, part of the Mirova Gigaton Fund, will support ManoCap’s expansion  and accelerate the transition from fossil  fuels to renewable energy in West...Read More

On 16th May 2024, the MV LODUR a container carrier sailing under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda inbound to the Freetown Container Terminal at The Queen Elisabeth II Port to discharge cargo ran aground on rocks within the territorial waters of Sierra Leone. Attempts by the crew to refloat the vessel under its own...Read More

Dear all at MBCLEGAL, I request your rapt attention to join me in congratulating Ms. Easmon, Ms. Aitkins and Ms. Kabba, who were all called to the Bar yesterday.Read More

MIGA has issued $36 million in guarantees for the design, construction and operation of a facility in southern Sierra Leone that will cultivate, harvest and process pineapples and other tropical fruit for export. https://www.miga.org/press-release/mi… #sierraleone #agribusiness #migaRead More

Since the announcement by the Government of Sierra Leone on 31st March 2020 of the advent of the COVID 19 virus in Sierra Leone, a number of actions have been taken by the Government to what is effect wage war on the disease. A state of public health emergency pursuant to section (29)(1) of the...Read More

Although rumors abounded about the existence of oil and gas potentials in Sierra Leone pre the 1980s, the history of oil and gas exploration is said to have actually commenced with two rounds of exploration in the offshore sectors of Sierra Leone and Liberia. A total of nine wells were drilled offshore in Sierra Leone...Read More

On 31st March 2020 the Government of Sierra Leone announced the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Sierra Leone. Consequent upon the said announcement, several measures have been taken by the Government to contain the spread and this includes but not limited to the imposition of a curfew, movement of goods, services and persons restricted, a...Read More

Blessed with enviable deposits of a plethora of mineral resources such as diamond, rutile, ilmenite, bauxite, gold, iron ore, limonite, platinum, chromite (columbite-tantalite) i.e. coltan, tantalite, columbite and zircon; and as if that was not enough the discovery of very promising oil and gas reserves offshore, Sierra Leone has rather shot to fame for a...Read More

Sierra Leone continues to beckon a flurry of foreign direct investment (FDI) and despite the advent of COVID-19, there has been some uptake in the requests for advice on Mergers and Acquisitions in Sierra Leone quite recently. If the current trends are anything to go by, this is likely to ramp up quite considerably. Borrowing...Read More