Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

Population: 6.2 mn.
GDP: 3.8 bn.
Debt: 0.8 bn.
Overview:

The economy will continue to grow steadily as the government and International Monetary Fund revise predictions downwards. Re-elected in November 2012, President Ernest Bai Koroma will carry on with the investment in infrastructure. Fiscal discipline is likely to slacken as he faces a weakened opposition.

 


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  • 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

  • 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.

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