55/3 | Big plans for 2014
New efforts by the Seoul government and by South Korea's private companies aim to widen cooperation with its African partners this year. These new initiatives follow a series of mishaps which have damaged the image of Asia's fourth-largest economy and sl
31st Jan 2014
55/2 | Mid-term blues
The rumour which flashed around Monrovia late last year that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf had died was a harbinger of unsettled times ahead. As she reaches the midpoint in her last presidential term a host of political challenges loom (AC Vol 54 No 22
24th Jan 2014
54/25 | Changing the constitution
After two seats controversially changed hands the governing All People's Congress (APC) is just one seat short of a two-thirds majority in Parliament. That's the vote needed if backed by a referendum to change the constitution. Constituencies 5 and 15
12th Dec 2013
54/24 | Koroma’s legacy
Nothing that President Ernest Bai Koroma has promised since coming to power in 2007 has excited as much hope as his pledges to improve the parlous state of the roads and energy supply. He set up the Presidential Energy Emergency Task Force in October 2007
28th Nov 2013
54/24 | Two divided houses
The opposition Sierra Leone People's Party is still struggling to find its feet in spite of a series of political and economic slips by the governing All People's Congress which is suffering internal stress of its own. The SLPP leader Julius Maada Bio
28th Nov 2013
54/23 | Angry Koroma lashes out at the press
The biggest media crackdown since the civil war ended in 2002 is underway in Sierra Leone. Two editors of the Independent Observer newspaper Jonathan Leigh and Bai Bai Sesay face a possible three years in gaol if convicted of seditious libel after a fro
11th Nov 2013
7 (AAC)/1 | China Kingho targets multiple projects
China's Kingho Energy has clinched an agreement with the Ministry of Energy for the construction of one thermal and three hydroelectric power plants in Sierra Leone. Minister of Energy and Power Oluniyi Robbin-Coker signed the deal with Kingho Energy Grou
4th Nov 2013
7 (AAC)/1 | Le Duong Quang
The Vietnam-Africa Friendship and Cooperation Association elected Deputy Commerce Minister Le Duong Quang as its President for the 2013-2018 period at its 18 October national congress the second in its history. He replaces Deputy Minister of Agriculture
4th Nov 2013
54/22 | Feted and berated
In 2005 President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf inherited a battered country with no infrastructure and an annual budget of US$85 million. The budget she signed on 19 October stands at $582 mn. Once shabby and tumbledown Monrovia is now cleaner than most West A
31st Oct 2013
54/21 | Physician heal thyself
Reform and reorganisation are under way at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as developing countries demand better policies to promote growth and a bigger stake – ‘more chairs and shares' – in both. With Asia's hyper-economi
17th Oct 2013
