{"id":2993,"date":"2014-06-22T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2014-06-22T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T04:00:44","slug":"sierra-leones-president-opens-private-sector-roundtable-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leones-president-opens-private-sector-roundtable-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone’s President opens Private Sector Roundtable forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Koroma recently officially opened the maiden Presidential Private Sector Roundtable forum organized by the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry.<\/p>\n

The one-day private sector round table forum was held at the Radisson Blu Mammy Yoko Hotel at Aberdeen in Freetown.
\nThe forum gave an opportunity to the private sector to highlight challenges faced by them in doing business in the country.
\nDelivering the keynote address, President Ernest Bai Koroma said change of mindset in the private sector is needed to move the economy around.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cI know the power of the private sector that is why we will run government efficiently like a business for the transformation of the country…<\/p>\n

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President Koroma recently officially opened the maiden Presidential Private Sector Roundtable forum organized by the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) and the Ministry of Trade and Industry. The one-day private sector round table forum was held at the Radisson Blu Mammy Yoko Hotel at Aberdeen in Freetown. The forum gave an opportunity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[1358,258,256,1359,257,1360,1355,4714,1356,1135,1357,254,4692],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-aberdeen","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-freetown","tag-news","tag-president-ernest-bai-koroma","tag-president-koroma","tag-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone-investment-and-export-promotion-agency","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-sliepa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}