From The Editorial Department In the first two articles of our Sierra Leone investigation series, we highlighted the existing disparities in the national salary structure and how the payroll has widened since Maada Bio assumed power two years ago. We pointed out explosive increase of almost 45% in the wage bill in the last […]
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, & Mark Feldman In the introductory article to our investigation series on Sierra Leone, we highlighted the existing disparities in the national salary structure and how the payroll has widened since Maada Bio assumed power two years ago. We pointed out explosive increase of almost 45% in
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, Mark Feldman & Patrick Mbullo We write this editorial in response to the press release issued by Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Finance after Africanist Press published an article titled “Payroll Corruption in Sierra Leone: The Ministry of Finance’s Scandalous Wage Bill” on March 1, 2020. The article
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Two weeks ago, the Sierra Leone media was inundated with news reports indicative of an already existing financial crisis facing the government of Sierra Leone. These news reports followed revelations of the government’s inability to pay monthly salaries to many public sector workers for the
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