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Finance Minister David Carew, Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura and Lands Minister Benjamin Davies are generally held in high esteem. Other ministers are less appreciated. Rumours of corruption and intimidation swarm about Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana, a diamond businessman from Kono in the east, who clawed back All People's Congress votes there in a traditionally Sierra Leone People's Party-dominated area....

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David Carew, Zainab Bangura, Benjamin Davies, Samuel Sam-Sumana, Ernest Bai Koroma, Haja Afsatu Kabbah, Alimamy Koroma, Britain, Alhaji Abubakar Jalloh

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