Vol 52 No 23 | SIERRA LEONE Ferry fiasco dents Koroma’s standing 18th November 2011 Anti-corruption momentum is slackening as the President gauges a growing political threat from the opposition On taking office in 2007, President Ernest Bai Koroma vowed to run the country as a ‘business venture’. What he did not intend was the state social security...
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 48 No 15 | SIERRA LEONE Justice at a price 20th July 2007 The court that is trying Sierra Leone's war-crimes is costly and, so far, not very effective The Special Court for Sierra Leone is well past its sell-by date. Intended to last only three years, until 2005, the SCSL now aims to wind up at...
Vol 50 No 23 | SIERRA LEONE President Koroma pledges 'We no go tire' 20th November 2009 The country wants investment and, with a little help from his friend Tony Blair, President Koroma embarks upon a fund-raising mission in Britain In the run-up to a fund-raising conference in London on 18 November, President Ernest Bai Koroma was pushing legal and business reforms, and making an example of corrupt...
Vol 59 No 4 | SIERRA LEONE 'Usual suspects' face challenge 23rd February 2018 With two weeks to polling day, the field is surprisingly open among those wooing voters for the chance to succeed Koroma To many, the scandal surrounding the government's misuse of IMF funds to prime the electoral pump for the benefit of the ruling All People's Congress typifies the country's...