SIERRA LEONE COUNTRY OUTLOOK

The Sierra Leone Country Outlook is an annual publication that primarily focuses on business opportunities in the public and private sectors, offering comprehensive insights and analyses on Sierra Leone’s economic landscape, policy reforms, political environment, public-private partnerships, sustainable development, global trade, foreign policy, humanitarian and NGO affairs,  and diplomatic relations worldwide. 

The Sierra Leone Country Outlook 2025/2026 will showcase trade and investment opportunities in the public and private sectors, and profile the leading investors across the country. It will contain articles on all important events in Sierra Leone, focusing on major recent developments and national, sub-regional, regional, and international organisations, as well as articles and exclusive interviews on trade policies and investment regulations. 

The publication is mainly oriented to the requirements of a large range of targeted groups: diplomats,  administrators, journalists, foreign investors, researchers, tourists,  business travellers, analysts, professionals, and practitioners in the field of socioeconomic development, trade, foreign affairs, and humanitarian aid, as well as industrialists and business people in Sierra Leone and missions abroad.

The Guide will be an essential reference manual highlighting trade and investment opportunities in Sierra Leone, and about the need-to-know business issues of the country. The publication will undoubtedly help potential investors, business people, policymakers, ambassadors, foreign  NGOs, and the private sector to have firsthand information about key socioeconomic activities, the environment and culture, diplomatic relations, foreign policy, trade regulations, business-critical information, and more.

The publication will be an invaluable companion, which will help provide helpful information and insights into the geopolitical,  economic, and social ecosystems of Sierra Leone.

Features and Key Benefits

The Sierra Leone Country Outlook 2025/2026 will be a digital and print publication and a reference manual. The publisher, African CEO Media  Corp., aims to systematically grow the Guide’s readership both across  Sierra Leone and overseas.

The publication will contain excellent print quality, A4 size,  using quality art paper, and in full co,lour throughout. With high-resolution specs and laminated front and back covers, the publication will be produced to the highest standards. This edition will be launched at a side event during the World Bank / IMF Spring Meeting in October, and will be available for subsequent distribution at various global events around the world and in Sierra Leone.

Among other key benefits and features, the Sierra Leone Country Outlook 2025/2026 will:

• Provide an ideal partnership in informing, planning, and strategizing across the key socioeconomic disciplines in Sierra Leone’s economy.
• Provide a communication tool on trade and investment promotion activities of the Government, including ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs).
• Promote opportunities in the public sector, and elaborate on public sector-specific perspectives.
• Showcase business entities and a directory of useful contacts of  Sierra Leonean embassies abroad, foreign embassies and missions in Sierra Leone,  useful business contacts, and promote private sector opportunities and sector-specific perspectives through exclusive interviews and investor,  company profiles.
• Provide a well-researched information guide useful to investors,  development partners, humanitarian aid agencies/NGOs, and researchers whose interests may be specific to an undefined market sector.
• Present a wide range of information in a ‘one-stop’ platform for key stakeholders.
• Provide a forum in the information age for selected organisations that have a valuable contribution to make.
• Provide factual and accurate information both on the web and in print in the days of fake news, inappropriate, misleading, and misinformation about Sierra Leone.
• Showcase transformation efforts from within in rebranding,  showcasing business opportunities, and promoting important events and activities of major importance at home and abroad.
• Help entities compare notes and programs and open the communication process in an extremely prestigious and powerful setting.

Readers of the Sierra Leone Country Outlook: Who are they?

The readers of Sierra Leone Country Outlook 2025/2026 will include decision-makers in government and the private sector across the country,  Africa, and overseas. Over 5,000 printed copies and digital distribution of the publication will reach an estimated 500,000 plus people, including senior government officials, business leaders and senior executives, Sierra Leonean and foreign diplomats, entrepreneurs,  investment and financial advisers, journalists, tourists and visitors to  Sierra Leone, business strategists and management and economic consultants, monetary analysts, economists, researchers, opinion makers,  industrialists and academics in the country and Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora, will read the publication, both in digital format (electronic)  and print publication– through controlled circulation and complimentary distribution worldwide.

In summary, the profile of the readers and target audience of the Sierra Leone Country Outlook includes:

• Decision makers from all sectors
• Movers and shakers in public institutions
• High net worth individuals
• Influential personalities in a wide range of areas and at the highest levels in the economy
• Heavy consumers and frequent and upscale travellers
• Frequent and large-scale investors
• Opportunists and Information Seekers
• Business-oriented executives and entrepreneurs.

How to Advertise in the Investor’s Guide

Make your brand stand out by advertising your business or services in the Sierra Leone Country Outlook 2025/2026, featuring trade and investment opportunities and profiles of public institutions and enterprises across  Sierra Leone.

You can call or WhatsApp Lydia Thomas, the Sierra Leone Country Outlook Coordinator at +1-646-444-8182 or via email lydia.thomas@africanceomagazine.com, or you can contact Eleanor Mends at eleanor.mends@sierraleoneoutlook.com or via phone at 076-497-908, to place an advert in the 2025/2026 edition.

DEADLINE: Kindly complete the form at the back of this page and return it to us on or before 30th July 2025.