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 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

  • 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

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