Vol 53 No 20 | SIERRA LEONE Election tax axed 5th October 2012 A major electoral controversy came to an end in mid-September when President Ernest Bai Koroma reversed the decision of the National Electoral Commission Chairwoman, Christiana Thorpe, to raise...
Vol 42 No 13 | SIERRA LEONE Minimal contracts 29th June 2001 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...
Vol 41 No 16 | NIGERIA Transparency test 4th August 2000 Not much is going right in the government's efforts to relaunch licensing of prime oil exploration acreage: it had cancelled many awards made under military rule. The present...
Vol 66 No 10 | SIERRA LEONE First Lady under fire 16th May 2025 President Julius Maada Bio’s wife, Fatima Maada Bio, has bought a string of luxury properties in the Gambia worth over US$2 million since 2020, according to an investigation...
Vol 60 No 11 | NIGERIA Troubles mount for Buhari 31st May 2019 There will be no radical changes in economic policy but a reshuffle of the security chiefs is probable and long overdue It may have been lack-lustre economy or the deepening national security crisis but President Muhammadu Buhari's swearing-in on 29 May was a morose affair. It was also short...
