October 2020

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman  Sierra Leone’s Maritime Administration (SLMA), the country’s regulatory body responsible for the development of improved standards of performance and practice in the shipping industry including registration of ships and other vessels, could not account for more than Le27.2 billion Leones in maritime revenues collected during […]

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Details of an internal audit into financial activities of the Maada Bio administration for the fiscal year 2019, an advance copy of which the Africanist Press has seen, reveal how three government ministries in Sierra Leone collectively spent a total of Le21 billion (US$2,115,870) without

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman The government of Sierra Leone has stopped an ongoing audit that looks into the use of the coronavirus emergency funds by the country’s National Coronavirus Emergency Response Center (NaCOVERC). Cabinet minutes and a letter from the country’s Law Officers Department, seen by the Africanist Press,

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman An internal audit into revenue arrears of Sierra Leone’s National Telecommunications Company (NATCOM), the country’s telecoms regulatory agency, has revealed a chronic failure by telecommunications companies and other operators to pay yearly license fees and other operational service charges amounting to billions of Leones owed