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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 44 No 22
  • 07/11/2003

Taylor's shadow

There is a new government but no real peace and far too few peacekeepers

  • Vol 44 No 11
  • 30/05/2003

No cash, no court

The Special Court set up to try those 'who bear most responsibility' for the decade-long civil war faces a cash crisis which may delay trials and scupper plans for a new court building and detention centre in Freetown. Government efforts to rebuild the ba...

  • Vol 44 No 4
  • 21/02/2003

Model justice, for some

War crimes trials start this year but the causes of the war still fester

  • Vol 43 No 23
  • 22/11/2002

Get with the programme

Generous reconstruction aid comes with unprecedented donor micro-management

  • Vol 43 No 11
  • 31/05/2002

Kabbah's cabal

After an easy election win, the President must tackle corruption and placate the north

  • Vol 43 No 11
  • 31/05/2002

Cabinet making

President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has kept his supporters close about him in a new 22-member cabinet that shuffles posts but makes no real changes. Past efforts to include the Revolutionary United Front ended in disaster. The new lineup claims regional balance...

  • Vol 43 No 10
  • 17/05/2002

Polling in peace

The 14 May presidential and parliamentary elections were lauded as the most peaceful in four decades but political problems loom.

  • Vol 43 No 7
  • 05/04/2002

Heading for the door

Problems with the election timetable and organisation undermine the huge peacekeeping mission

  • Vol 43 No 7
  • 05/04/2002

Whose best friend?

The slaughter in Sierra Leone was mainly about resources and most people's lack of them. For decades, the Freetown elite and its foreign friends kept the spoils of the diamond business; for most of the past decade, the Revolutionary United Front controlle...

  • Vol 42 No 16
  • 10/08/2001

Fuelling conflict

Poisoned by Liberia's support for the rebel Revolutionary United Front, relations between President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government and President Charles Taylor face a new test. They are set to become partners in developing the region's oil resources.

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