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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 47 No 12
  • 09/06/2006

The signs are rusting

Politicians compete to lead a government with big changes to make

  • Vol 47 No 8
  • 14/04/2006

Courting disaster

Arrogance and ineptitude may allow the warlords to get away with murder

  • Vol 47 No 8
  • 14/04/2006

The accused

The main point of the United Nations-backed Special Court was to try 'those with the greatest responsibility' for the ten-year war that left 50,000 people dead and half a million displaced. There are to be separate trials for the three parties to the con...

  • Vol 46 No 24
  • 02/12/2005

Counting on oil

Donors pledged upwards of US$800 million in reconstruction aid over the next three years at the Sierra Leone Consultative Group in London on 30 November. This far exceeded the $360 mn. President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's government was seeking. It may not ...

  • Vol 46 No 20
  • 07/10/2005

Flying with Solo B

The SLPP has chosen its flag bearer for the 2007 polls, with corruption the main issue

  • Vol 46 No 20
  • 07/10/2005

They were all contenders

Delegate conferences of the Sierra Leone People's Party and the All People's Congress last month produced new party leaderships, ready for the February 2007 elections. There were eight aspirants for the SLPP leadership:

  • Vol 46 No 13
  • 24/06/2005

A matter of graft

The World Bank has postponed indefinitely a donors' meeting on Sierra Leone, which had initially been scheduled for 6 June, as concern grows about high-level corruption in President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government. There are also rumblings of disconten...

  • Vol 45 No 25
  • 17/12/2004

The truth of the matter

Will President Kabbah act on a series of damning reports on human rights and corruption?

  • Vol 45 No 25
  • 17/12/2004

Diamond diagnosis

Official diamond export earnings are set to reach as much as US$120 million for 2004 compared to just over $70 mn. in 2003. This is partly an effect of the Kimberley Process, which discourages smuggling, as buyers in Europe will often purchase non-cert...

  • Vol 45 No 14
  • 09/07/2004

No peace without justice

Freetown's war crimes court slowly establishes a precedent

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