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Sierra Leone

Population: 5.6 million
GNI: $1400 million
Debt: $1400 million
Overview: President Ernest Bai Koroma's pledges to restore electricity and piped water and vanquish corruption will be tested after a slow start to his new administration. Expect controversy as a mining contracts' review gets under way.

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  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Slow turnaround

Slow progress on the economy and against corruption is rubbing the sheen off last year's free elections

  • Vol 49 No 14
  • 04/07/2008

Time to reshuffle

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-Suma...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  • 01/02/2008

Bring in the money

The President's trip to London produced some useful aid and gave him a chance to encourage investors

  • Vol 48 No 25
  • 14/12/2007

With a little help from his friends

Election fever is over and President Koroma must start to deliver

  • Vol 48 No 24
  • 30/11/2007

Koroma's Christmas present

Two months after his election, life for Sierra Leone's new President Ernest Bai Koroma has been full of pageantry and confusion. Three hours late for his own inauguration, he kept five presidents (Liberia, Nigeria, Gambia, Senegal and Burkina Faso) wa...

  • Vol 48 No 21
  • 19/10/2007

The new man picks his team

President Koroma wants to run the country as a business, but its managers are mostly politicians

  • Vol 48 No 19
  • 21/09/2007

A clean sweep, maybe

A peaceful transfer of power bodes well for serious reform and fresh aid for a broken country

  • Vol 48 No 18
  • 07/09/2007

A turn for the worse

Praised for their peaceful and credible conduct at first, the elections turned violent when rivals clashed a week before the presidential runoff on 8 September.

  • Vol 48 No 17
  • 24/08/2007

Doing good, not doing well

Reforms and the inflow of money have helped the ruling party more than the people

  • Vol 48 No 17
  • 24/08/2007

Closer and more credible

The presidential and parliamentary elections on 11 August have turned out to be closer and more credible than expected. Now they will be decided in a run-off vote between the two front-runners next month. None of the candidates won the 55% of the vote ...

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