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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 41 No 7
  • 31/03/2000

Radio silence

President Charles Taylor's 15 March order closing down two independent radio stations - Swiss-funded Star Radio and the Catholic-run Radio Veritas - may be linked to embarrassing reports emerging about the training of Revolutionary United Front fighters a...

  • Vol 40 No 16
  • 06/08/1999

Problematic peace

Charles Taylor's support is critical to end the war - the other problem is lack of finance

  • Vol 40 No 14
  • 09/07/1999

A deal in Lomé

The RUF negotiates its way into government after eight years of brutal warfare

  • Vol 40 No 11
  • 28/05/1999

Forced to talk

Weaknesses on both sides may just offer a chance of serious negotiations on power-sharing and amnesty (AC Vol 40 No 6) as talks between President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Corporal Foday Sankoh's teams opened in Lomé on 25 May. Yet 24 hours later, no f...

  • Vol 40 No 6
  • 19/03/1999

Leaving for Lomé

Foreign pressure is growing for President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah to start substantive negotiations with the Revolutionary United Front. Even Kabbah’s closest backers question his grip over the mainly SLPP (Sierra Leone People’s Party) cabinet – let alone his...

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