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Sierra Leone
Population: 5.8 mn.
GDP: 1.9 bn.
Debt: 0.4 bn.
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Massive iron ore exports are due to begin but state revenues will be small as companies negotiated low tax rates. President Ernest Bai Koroma faces a difficult re-election fight against the SLPP's Julius Maada Bio in November.

Sierra Leone Country Report

 


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  • Vol 53 No 1
  •  6th January 2012

Votes, mines and money

Koroma’s anti-corruption campaign has wavered with special deals for favoured companies. Whoever wins the elections will be short of cash

  • Vol 52 No 23
  •  18th November 2011

Ferry fiasco dents Koroma’s standing

Anti-corruption momentum is slackening as the President gauges a growing political threat from the opposition

  • Vol 52 No 13
  •  24th June 2011

Feast ore famine

The Tonkolili iron-ore mine looks set to make a billionaire of Frank Timis but the dividend for the nation is less sure

  • Vol 52 No 10
  •  13th May 2011

Not so golden jubilee

Freetown’s independence celebrations said much about the parlous state of the country and looming difficulties for the government

  • Vol 51 No 25
  •  17th December 2010

Iron constitutions required

A Chinese-British consortium exploiting massive iron ore reserves at Tonkolili prompts opposition from villagers and anti-corruption campaigners

  • Vol 51 No 10
  •  14th May 2010

Anti-corruption chief quits

The resignation on 7 May of Abdul Tejan-Cole as Commissioner and Chief Prosecutor of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) signals a growing malaise in the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma. In his two and half years in the post, Tejan-C...

  • Vol 51 No 6
  •  19th March 2010

Kabba on trial

The energetic Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, is scoring some success, with the suspension of the third minister in President Ernest Bai Koroma’s government on charges of abuse of office. It was Tejan-Cole’s persistence that ...

  • Vol 50 No 23
  •  20th November 2009

President Koroma pledges 'We no go tire'

The country wants investment and, with a little help from his friend Tony Blair, President Koroma embarks upon a fund-raising mission in Britain

  • Vol 50 No 23
  •  20th November 2009

From cowboys to corporates

For years, cowboy outfits have churned through Sierra Leone's red dirt for diamonds and gold, but now the government is getting serious about extractive industries. Listed companies already have interests in titanium ore (Sierra Rutile, owned by Titanium ...

  • Vol 50 No 20
  •  8th October 2009

More power for Freetown

Security has improved but political reforms and economic growth are moving too slowly to win much support for President Bai Koroma's government

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