Vol 53 No 1 | SIERRA LEONE Votes, mines and money 6th January 2012 Koroma’s anti-corruption campaign has wavered with special deals for favoured companies. Whoever wins the elections will be short of cash The presidential and legislative elections due in November 2012 will be close-run, pitting President Ernest Bai Koroma and the All Peoples’ Congress (APC) against Julius Maada Bio and...
Vol 57 No 4 | SIERRA LEONE Stuck at the airport 19th February 2016 President Ernest Bai Koroma is planning to take out a massive Chinese loan to build an airport despite promising the International Monetary Fund he would not, we hear....
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | SIERRA LEONECHINA Koroma nets $6.5 bn. deal from Kingho 5th August 2013 President Koroma wants more investments from China and Kingho is ready to go Chinese companies, both private and state-owned, are set to carve out major stakes in Sierra Leone’s economy. Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma ended a six-day trip to...
Vol 43 No 23 | SIERRA LEONE Get with the programme 22nd November 2002 Generous reconstruction aid comes with unprecedented donor micro-management Donors meeting in Paris on 13-14 November pledged US$650 million in aid over four years but that wasn't the meeting's main purpose. Two days of talks with a...
Vol 37 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE Sankoh signs up 29th November 1996 Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front has been badly damaged, with 'spontaneous demobilisations' in the east. So it was expected to sign the draft Peace Agreement in Abidjan on...