Vol 41 No 11 | SIERRA LEONE Mission leap 26th May 2000 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)...
Vol 57 No 20 | SIERRA LEONE Iron Man 7th October 2016 Facing lacklustre demand in the global market, the country's iron-ore production is only slowly recovering from the disaster of the Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015. The leading company in...
Vol 60 No 8 | NIGERIA Atiku takes his beef to DC 19th April 2019 Atiku Abubakar is sticking by his claims of fraud in the Nigerian presidential election. He is spending $30,000 on Washington DC lobbyists Fein and DelValle to try to...
Vol 53 No 11 | NIGERIA Fuel fraud fans public anger 25th May 2012 Jonathan has to choose between penalising his friends and the final collapse of his government’s credibility over the fuel subsidy racket The belated announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan on 22 May that he wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to act on the US$6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud...
Vol 48 No 16 | NIGERIA Making haste slowly 3rd August 2007 President Yar'Adua shows he is prepared to make sweeping changes – even if the pace of decision-making remains slow Essentially, the new presidency started last week. President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua appointed his cabinet on 26 July and followed this four days later with a sweeping shake-up of...