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 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 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 64 No 15 | SIERRA LEONE Bio wanted more brio 20th July 2023 As Julius Maada Bio reshapes his government in the wake of the disputed results of the 24 June election giving him a second term, his new team is...
Vol 51 No 6 | SIERRA LEONE Kabba on trial 19th March 2010 The energetic Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, Abdul Tejan-Cole, is scoring some success, with the suspension of the third minister in President Ernest Bai Koroma’s government on charges...