November 2021

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman  Investment agreements and correspondence between the government of Sierra Leone and a Turkish company reveal how the Sierra Leonean President, Julius Maada Bio, singlehandedly leased the country’s ferry terminals to a Turkish company for a 25-year period without full disclosure nor parliamentary approval, as required […]

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman  Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has indefinitely suspended two of the most senior members of the country’s national auditing agency. Auditor general, Madam Lara Taylor-Pearce and her deputy, Tamba Momoh, were indefinitely suspended from office on Thursday morning. No official reasons were given by