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Everyone is complaining about the cost of living in Sierra Leone. Radios and television broadcasts are leading the way in discussing the galloping prices of goods and services in Sierra Leone and what can be done about it.

This is happening everywhere across the globe, after all, food prices have contributed a great deal to the instability in the Middle East and led to the overthrow of 2 governments in Africa. In England, just yesterday, it was announced, inflation has hit 4%. Truly 4% is child’s play compared to the sort of figures experienced by ordinary day to day person living in Africa. All though, most governments will not admit it, I’m sure we are experiencing something like 20% or more. For instance a sliced loaf of bread was about Le 6000 less than a year ago. Today it’s Le10,000

Reasons Why Africa/Sierra Leone Is Worst Hit

Some of the reasons why, Africa and therefore Sierra Leone is worst hit is

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Just to let you know ….here are some of the ways in which my life is much easier here in Sierra Leone.

#1. Better and cheaper childcare - This ONE is one of the main benefits! In England, we had more less no family (no grandma of any sorts) available to help us with the children. And we dared not hire a childminder or such like because of the prevalence of paedophilia. So apart from the few hours a day they spent at school, we were their main stay which meant, we were not able to go out as often as we wanted, in fact rarely. But now, we have family and trusted hired help who can look after the children so we can go out a bit more often.
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I’ve not posted for a while because I’ve been SO, SO busy! Well and with the advent of the light I’m able to do other things as well

I thought I’ll give you a list of 10 everyday goods and their prices. Inflation is a scourge in Sierra Leone and for that matter in most parts of Africa. There are no adequate controls on prices of goods, thus something you bought today may be 2x the price in as little as 2 weeks!
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