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The UK trade and investment forum - a post mortem
Opinion
Wednesday, 02 December 2009
It is not difficult to see who the winners of the recent Sierra Leone trade and investment forum were. James Sampha Koroma, for example was the single highest beneficiary of the two-day trade and investment forum, signing a $5 million business deal.
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President Koroma’s ‘masterstrokes’, will they work?
Editorial
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
President Ernest Bai Koroma must be hoping that the sacking and the subsequent prosecution of one of his ministers by the country’s anti-corruption body demonstrates quite unequivocally his zero-tolerance stance on graft.
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The problem with aid
National
Thursday, 15 October 2009
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Koroma: transparency & accountability all the way
When the announcement of a conference in London to ‘showcase Sierra Leonean progress to investors and donors from around the world’ was made last month it ignited the debate on aid once again.
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Dadis: might he be telling the truth?
Opinion
Thursday, 15 October 2009
The international pressure is mounting for junta leader Capt Moussa Dadis Camara with the International Criminal Court (ICC) opening an investigation into the suppression of an anti-government protest last month.
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Progressives versus reactionaries within the APC
Opinion
Monday, 11 August 2008
It is becoming increasingly clear that the APC is at war with itself.  It is an extension of the bitter leadership struggle that saw a partial truce before the elections of 2007, which the party won under the leadership of President Ernest Bai Koroma.  It is a war between the progressives within the party and the reactionaries; the new way versus the old way of doing things.
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Scotland Yard not involved in cocaine investigations
International
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Scotland Yard says it is not involved in the ongoing cocaine investigations in Sierra Leone.  This means that those of us, including President Koroma, who were expecting and had hoped for a thorough and conclusive investigation into the matter, should brace ourselves for a possible whitewash and a less than satisfactory outcome.
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