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

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Found 210 articles.

Vol 65 No 20 |

SIERRA LEONE

Bio rids himself of a turbulent auditor

27th September 2024

Corruption cases are mounting but the President and parliament want to end a decade of independent scrutiny by Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce

When Sierra Leone’s parliament returns from recess on 31 October, one of the first orders of business will be to ratify President Julius Maada Bio’s endorsement of the...

Vol 65 No 18 |

SIERRA LEONE

Africa Confidential prompts probe of business school scheme

5th September 2024

The Anti-Corruption Commission has opened an investigation into Africa Confidential’s report on the failed campus project as public anger grows

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) announced on 27 August that ‘after a careful review of’ Africa Confidential’s special report on how the University of Sierra Leone (USL) lost...

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Vol 65 No 17 |

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

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Vol 65 No 7 |

SIERRA LEONE

Court date for mine bosses

28th March 2024

Two former executives and a business consultant from collapsed Sierra Leone iron ore developer London Mining PLC are set to stand trial in London on charges of making...

Vol 65 No 3 |

Anatomy of a failed coup in Freetown

29th January 2024

A band of gunmen hoped to become Africa's newest junta and couldn't muster support, but questions about the role of ex-President Koroma abound

Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma's release for 'medical treatment' in Nigeria and the backroom deal that brought it about has enraged many of President Julius Maada Bio's supporters. Controversy...

Vol 65 No 2 |

SIERRA LEONE

Ex-President Koroma faces treason charges as crisis deepens

10th January 2024

The dispute over last year's elections has escalated as the former President prepares for a treason trial

Political tensions are mounting in Freetown after the secret plan to allow Sierra Leone's former President, Ernest Bai Koroma to go into exile in Nigeria and drop the...

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