Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Population: 6.2 mn.
GDP: 3.8 bn.
Debt: 0.8 bn.
Overview:

The economy will continue to grow steadily as the government and International Monetary Fund revise predictions downwards. Re-elected in November 2012, President Ernest Bai Koroma will carry on with the investment in infrastructure. Fiscal discipline is likely to slacken as he faces a weakened opposition.

 


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  • Vol 54 No 10
  •  10th May 2013

Impunity in Freetown

An arms and gem dealer for the civil war militias lives openly in the capital with apparent government approval and in defiance of UN sanctions

  • Vol 54 No 10
  •  10th May 2013

Testimony on Bah

Transcripts from the Special Court on Sierra Leone’s trial of Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor contain copious evidence about the central role of Ibrahima Bah in diamond trading and arms supply, under the heading ‘The Role of Intermediaries’.

  • Vol 54 No 10
  •  10th May 2013

Not an honorary consul

The Italian businessman who claims to have been cheated by Ibrahima Bah over gold deals, Vittorio Narciso Ruello, made other interesting connections through Bah in the region. In 2010, Ruello claimed to police, he had asked Bah to get the Sierra Leonean a...

  • Vol 54 No 6
  •  15th March 2013

Groans about growth

The increasing flow of ore exports is good for foreign companies and GDP figures but government revenue from mining is low and poorly handled

  • Vol 54 No 6
  •  15th March 2013

Trouble in the hills

Social tension has twice erupted into violence around African Minerals Limited’s Tonkolili mine. In late 2010, AML caused alarm when it started to build a dam on a plot of land outside its concession.

  • Vol 54 No 6
  •  15th March 2013

Unhealthy finances

The Anti-Corruption Commission charged 29 officials, most of them in connection with over US$1 million from the Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunisations that went missing in the Ministry of Health and Sanitation on 7 March.

  • Vol 54 No 4
  •  15th February 2013

Loyalty rewarded

Only several months after President Ernest Bai Koroma’s re-election are the winners and losers in the post-electoral division of spoils becoming clear. Most prominent among them is Usman Boie Kamara, the new Minister of Trade and Industry. He was Julius M...

  • Vol 54 No 2
  •  18th January 2013

Funds query for Bangura

‘Serious concerns’ about the management of funds granted by the Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunisations (GAVI) to a health programme in Sierra Leone is causing embarrassment for Zainab Bangura, the United Nations Special Representative for Sex...

  • Vol 53 No 24
  •  30th November 2012

Clouds over Koroma’s victory

Claims of electoral fraud and threats of militant protest by the opposition shadow the start of the President’s second term

  • Vol 53 No 23
  •  16th November 2012

Elections 2012: Koroma in front

The elections should crown peace in the country but worries about vote-buying and violence persist

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