Vol 57 No 4 | SIERRA LEONE The political toll of Ebola 19th February 2016 Unused ambulances parked in the open in the midst of the outbreak are just one image of horror emerging in a new report Standing prominently in front of the maternity ward of Kenema Government Hospital is a newly erected plaque bearing the names of 36 health workers who perished combating the...
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 59 No 3 | SIERRA LEONE Drilling down 9th February 2018 Sierra Leone's biggest mining company, Tonkolili Iron Ore, has been accused of complicity in rape, assault and the false imprisonment of a protester in a landmark case being...
Vol 40 No 14 | SIERRA LEONE A deal in Lomé 9th July 1999 The RUF negotiates its way into government after eight years of brutal warfare Sierra Leoneans reacted with a mix of relief and scepticism following the signing of the Lomé peace deal on 7 July which brings Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United...
Vol 65 No 17 | NIGERIASIERRA LEONESPECIAL REPORT Freetown’s business school buys $4.5m hole in the bush 22nd August 2024 Sierra Leone University lost US$4.5m of public money to a Nigerian company after red flags were ignored and safeguards overridden. Then, they kept it secret An Africa Confidential Special Report By Josef Skrdlik and Andrew Weir READ FOR FREE