{"id":12174,"date":"2012-03-11T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=12174"},"modified":"2019-12-03T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:25:10","slug":"sierra-leone-to-print-notes-to-alleviate-cash-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=12174","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone to print notes to alleviate cash shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='has-larger-font-size'>\n<div class=\"blog-entry-body\">According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/archives\/36285\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article in Sierra Express Media dated 9 March 2012<\/a>, the government of Sierra Leone will soon print new banknotes to address the \u201cserious shortage of currency in the country\u201d which is \u201ca result of the intensive economy activities of mining companies that were not taken into consideration when the resized bank notes were about to be printed,\u201d said Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, Information and Communications Minister. <\/p>\n<p>Given that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsl.gov.sl\/\" target=\"self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bank of Sierra Leone<\/a> introduced new, smaller banknotes just two years ago which were printed by De La Rue, it\u2019s likely that Kargbo\u2019s comments simply mean that the bank will purchase additional notes of the same design from DLR, perhaps with new dates and signatures, but not new designs entirely. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in Sierra Express Media dated 9 March 2012, the government of Sierra Leone will soon print new banknotes to address the \u201cserious shortage of currency in the country\u201d which is \u201ca result of the intensive economy activities of mining companies that were not taken into consideration<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=12174\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[90],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-12174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa","tag-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12175,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12174\/revisions\/12175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}