Vol 56 No 2 | SIERRA LEONE The politics of Ebola 23rd January 2015 The government’s handling of the epidemic is increasingly compared unfavourably with Guinea and Liberia In its last report on Ebola, the United Nations World Health Organisation offered Sierra Leone some good news. The incidence of infection appeared to be decreasing, the WHO...
Vol 55 No 25 | SIERRA LEONE Freetown under fire on Ebola 19th December 2014 The government’s handling of the epidemic comes in for criticism as cases rise in the Eastern Province On 12 December, President Ernest Bai Koroma issued an edict banning all Christmas celebrations, especially the street festivals and masquerades for which Freetown is famous. On 25 December,...
Vol 55 No 15 | SIERRA LEONE Honour among presidents 25th July 2014 Richard Konteh, the State House Chief of Staff supposedly fired for corruption, is claiming that he was in fact the fall guy for President Ernest Bai Koroma’s inadvertent...
Vol 55 No 12 | SIERRA LEONE Koroma sacks top aide 13th June 2014 President Ernest Bai Koroma sacked his chief of staff Richard Konteh for alleged corruption over mining and timber deals on 9 June. The dismissal casts a cloud over...
Vol 55 No 10 | SIERRA LEONE Only you 16th May 2014 President Ernest Bai Koroma’s loyalists in the governing All People’s Congress are again clamouring for him to stand for a third term. That would require a change to...
Vol 7 (AAC) No 1 | SIERRA LEONECHINA China Kingho targets multiple projects 4th November 2013 The privately-owned mining company is expanding its business activities to include mining, railway and electricity 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...
Vol 54 No 25 | SIERRA LEONE Changing the constitution 12th December 2013 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...
Vol 54 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE Koroma’s legacy 28th November 2013 The President’s biggest promise was to renew the country’s infrastructure but criticism of his record is growing, especially on roads and power 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...
Vol 54 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE Two divided houses 28th November 2013 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...
Vol 54 No 23 | SIERRA LEONE Angry Koroma lashes out at the press 11th November 2013 Amidst growing intolerance of dissent, police threw two journalists into prison after the President took offence at a newspaper article 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...