Vol 59 No 6 | SIERRA LEONE APC tries to stall election 23rd March 2018 After desperate politicians exploited ethnic allegiances, the ruling party is trying to stop the presidential runoff going ahead Few surprises were produced by Sierra Leone's presidential elections on 7 March, which saw the ruling All People's Congress presidential candidate, Samura Kamara, head to a runoff ...
Vol 59 No 5 | SIERRA LEONE Flights of fancy 9th March 2018 President Ernest Bai Koroma officially launched the Mamamah international airport project and associated 'airport city' for Freetown on 2 March, just in time to boost the prospects...
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 parlous...
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 heard ...
Vol 59 No 3 | SIERRA LEONE IMF stops funds over 'election' budget 30th January 2018 The government is spending IMF money on trying to win the election, not on agreed measures for economic recovery. The Fund has suspended payments A confidential despatch by United States diplomats in Freetown has laid bare the cause of strained relations between President Ernest Bai Koroma's government and the International ...
Vol 58 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE A homemade disaster 1st December 2017 Toothless state agencies, illegal quarrying and government inaction sowed the seeds of August's deadly mudslide The government now acknowledges that more than 1,000 people were killed in Freetown when a massive chunk of Mount Sugar Loaf, long degraded by illegal construction and blasting, sl...
Vol 58 No 22 | SIERRA LEONE One man, one vote 3rd November 2017 After much delay, President Ernest Bai Koroma has finally found a candidate he favours to take the nomination of the All Peoples Congress for the 2018 presidential election.
Vol 58 No 18 | SIERRA LEONE Pretty vacant presidency 8th September 2017 The ruling party still has no candidate for the next election. The opposition has several but its previous candidate won't budge Although the election to find a successor for President Ernest Bai Koroma takes place on 7 March next year, the country's two leading parties are yet to select their candidates. Ma...
Vol 58 No 17 | SIERRA LEONE Sugar loaf sell-out 25th August 2017 Freetown politicians, Western embassies and property speculators face some tough questions about responsibility for the Mount Sugar Loaf landslide on 14 August in which more than 5...
Vol 58 No 8 | SIERRA LEONE Runway overrun 14th April 2017 Despite promising the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that he would not go through with it, President Ernest Bai Koroma has still not given up on the Mamamah airport pro...
