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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 44 No 11
  •  30th May 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
  •  21st February 2003

Model justice, for some

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

  • Vol 43 No 23
  •  22nd November 2002

Get with the programme

Generous reconstruction aid comes with unprecedented donor micro-management

  • Vol 43 No 11
  •  31st May 2002

Kabbah's cabal

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

  • Vol 43 No 11
  •  31st May 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
  •  17th May 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
  •  5th April 2002

Heading for the door

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

  • Vol 43 No 7
  •  5th April 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
  •  10th August 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.

  • Vol 42 No 13
  •  29th June 2001

Precarious calm

The fighters are disarming and demobilising fast but the much tougher job of building the peace remains to be done

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