George Soros

Philanthropic multimillionaire George Soros who has met Koroma and invested in the country via his Soros Economic Development Fund has optimistically described Sierra Leone as 'a stable state where good governance has taken hold'...

He invited Sierra Leoneans abroad to return home and met philanthropic financier George Soros and British former Prime Minister Tony Blair whose African Governance Initiative has nine advisors in Freetown...

However Griffiths has complained to the Open Society Institute funded by George Soros about the imbalance of resources allocated to the prosecution and the defence...

After years working for the UN Johnson Sirleaf has many friends in the international system and is close to billionaire George Soros...

Newspapers outside the big groups include the weekly Mail & Guardian bought a few years ago by Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube with support from George Soros’ Open Society Institute (AC Vol 44 No 4)...

Negotiations have just been suspended between the government and the Open Society Institute (backed by financier George Soros) which offered to finance local civil society projects in exchange for reforms to promote accountability...

The much less moneyed Trevor Ncube majority shareholder of the Zimbabwe Independent (Zimind) has bought South Africa's Weekly Mail and Guardian from Britain's Guardian newspapers raising the capital through the African Banking Corporation (ABC) which is also linked to Mawere and has Ghana's Sam Jonah on the board; Ncube has also received funds from George Soros' Open Society foundation...

His target was the immensely rich good-governance campaigner George Soros who backs Global Witness and whose Open Society Foundation's head in Angola is Rafael Marques a vociferous and much harassed critic of the MPLA...

Also influential is Rafael Marques the Luanda representative of George Soros's Open Society foundation...

How to improve on that performance will be top of the agenda at the first meeting of the International Investment Council including such magnates as Bill Rhodes George Soros and Frank Savage (AC Vol 41 No 4) scheduled for mid-year...

To convince local and foreign business he's serious he's set up an International Investment Council with such corporate heads as Citibank's Bill Rhodes George Soros Frank Savage of America's Alliance Capital Management Tony O'Reilly of Independent Newspapers Mitsubishi's Minoru Makihara and Jürgen Schremp of Daimler-Chrysler...