Vol 50 No 23 | SIERRA LEONE From cowboys to corporates 20th November 2009 For years, cowboy outfits have churned through Sierra Leone's red dirt for diamonds and gold, but now the government is getting serious about extractive industries. Listed companies already...
Vol 57 No 7 | SIERRA LEONE What price recovery? 1st April 2016 Crashing prices and Ebola blighted the economy. Now, hopes are pinned on the mining sector for a much-needed rebirth Flattened by an Ebola epidemic, the crash in world iron prices and serial mismanagement in its mining companies, Sierra Leone's economy is in intensive care. On 15 March,...
Vol 41 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE Bringing back the British 8th December 2000 Critically dependent on UN and British military support, President Kabbah's government is facing growing civilian opposition Desperation and nostalgia help explain why more than 5,000 Sierra Leoneans crowded in to the National Stadium in Freetown on 23 November to show their support for British...
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...
Vol 63 No 1 | SIERRA LEONEAFRICA IN 2022 Bashing the book-keeper 7th January 2022 Julius Maada Bio is risking his reputation for probity by suspending the respected Auditor-General, Lara Taylor-Pearce The charges of impunity, favouritism, corruption and subverting the constitution that President Julius Maada Bio now faces uncomfortably resemble those he flung at his predecessor, President Ernest Bai...