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Sierra Leone
Population: 5.8 mn.
GDP: 1.9 bn.
Debt: 0.4 bn.
Overview:

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 47 No 8
  •  14th April 2006

Courting disaster

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

  • Vol 47 No 8
  •  14th April 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
  •  2nd December 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 be u...

  • Vol 46 No 20
  •  7th October 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
  •  7th October 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
  •  24th June 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 discontent i...

  • Vol 45 No 25
  •  17th December 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
  •  17th December 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-certifi...

  • Vol 45 No 14
  •  9th July 2004

No peace without justice

Freetown's war crimes court slowly establishes a precedent

  • Vol 44 No 22
  •  7th November 2003

Taylor's shadow

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

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