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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.

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  • Vol 42 No 13
  •  29th June 2001

Minimal contracts

Ukrainian businessman Leonid Minin, named by Africa Confidential and the United Nations sanctions committee as a leading arms supplier to the Revolutionary United Front, was rearrested by Italian police in the early hours of 21 June in the company of two ...

  • Vol 42 No 5
  •  9th March 2001

The cost of Kabbah

Putting off elections for six months is delaying the evil day

  • Vol 41 No 24
  •  8th December 2000

Bringing back the British

Critically dependent on UN and British military support, President Kabbah's government is facing growing civilian opposition

  • Vol 41 No 14
  •  7th July 2000

Kabbah in court

Belgium's Chatelet Investment Company is suing the government in the first such case in a local court. Its lawyers, Banda Thomas and Co., appeared before High Court Justice Joe Masallay on 5 July claiming President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government has fail...

  • Vol 41 No 13
  •  23rd June 2000

Godfather to the rebels

Dealing with Charles Taylor is key to any peace settlement. The question is, how?

  • Vol 41 No 12
  •  9th June 2000

Moving the mandate

The credibility of the UN and British missions depends on the contest between around 25,000 Sierra Leonean fighters

  • Vol 41 No 12
  •  9th June 2000

Kabbah, the survivor

Sankoh's absence - even if temporary - boosts Kabbah but the soldiers manoevre

  • Vol 41 No 11
  •  26th May 2000

Mission leap

Britain's military and diplomatic mission in Sierra Leone is leaping rather than creeping. Among members of parliament from the ruling Labour Party side (and their Liberal Democrat allies) in the House of Commons there is plenty of backing for Britain's r...

  • Vol 41 No 10
  •  12th May 2000

The battle for Freetown

A rebel takeover of the capital would be an irreversible defeat for UN peacekeeping and British policy

  • Vol 41 No 7
  •  31st March 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...

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