Sierra Leone

	Sierra Leone
Population:	8.65m
GDP:	$7.41bn
Debt:	68.7% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 67 No 19 |

Africa Confidential Pointers

25th September 2026

Kenyan and Sudanese politicians hire US lobbyists; civic groups assess US health spending cuts; Uganda’s Otunnu hits UN campaign trail; US-Nigeria minerals deals; is drug lord Leijdekkers hiding in Gabon?

KENYA: Former Supreme Court chief justice David Maraga has become the latest Kenyan aspirant to hire United States lobbyists and plan a Washington DC trip to drum up...

Vol 67 No 13 |

Record cocaine haul sets Bio’s government on collision course with the EU

19th June 2026

A row over Freetown’s ties to Dutch trafficker Leijdekkers is spilling into a clash over aid and security

When Spain’s Guardia Civil intercepted a cargo vessel, off the Western Sahara coast carrying over 30 tonnes of cocaine on 1 May – the biggest such interdiction in...

Vol 67 No 5 |

SIERRA LEONE

New clash as Bio appoints election chief accused of bias

3rd March 2026

The President appears to be ignoring reforms agreed with the main opposition party

Political fault lines are widening ahead of national elections due by July 2028. The ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) are...

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