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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 49 No 14
  •  4th July 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-Sumana, ...

  • Vol 49 No 3
  •  1st February 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
  •  14th December 2007

With a little help from his friends

Election fever is over and President Koroma must start to deliver

  • Vol 48 No 24
  •  30th November 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) waitin...

  • Vol 48 No 21
  •  19th October 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
  •  21st September 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
  •  7th September 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
  •  24th August 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
  •  24th August 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 nec...

  • Vol 48 No 17
  •  24th August 2007

Breaking the political mould

Horse-trading aside, front running presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma and the People's Movement for Democratic Change's (PMDC) Charles Margai say their alliance will produce an inclusive government offering ministerial jobs to Sierra Leone People's ...

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