By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman The 2018 and 2019 financial records and bank statements of Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs show precisely how more than Le40.1 billion (over US$4 million) of funds earmarked for the supposed renovation of the Sierra Leone Mission headquarters in New York were withdrawn and […]
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has not responded to a lawsuit brought against the country’s diplomatic mission in New York. The United States District Court in New York dispatched four summons between 19 May 2021 and 17 June 2021 to the
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Sierra Leone’s Finance Ministry and officials in charge of the country’s COVID-19 response program have been holding billions of Leones (millions of US dollars) in public revenues received from COVID response services in a private bank account in direct violation of the country’s public finance
Zimbabwean authorities should immediately release New York Times freelancer Jeffrey Moyo and drop baseless charges against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Moyo, who also freelances for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper and Norway’s Bistandsaktuelt, was arrested on May 26 in the capital, Harare, and charged with violating Section 36 of the Immigration Act for alleged misrepresentations to immigration officials
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Details of an ongoing court proceeding in New York against Sierra Leone’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations are likely to reveal how senior government officials in Freetown have been using the country’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and its diplomatic missions to transfer millions of dollars
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In the month of April 2021, we reported how the Sierra Leone president and other senior government officials have been using local and international travel to move foreign currencies amounting to billions of Leones (millions of US$) out of Sierra Leone to foreign destinations under
By Gregory Simpkins The decision by Sierra Leone to shut down the operations of U.S.-owned SL Mining has called into question that government’s commitment to the rule of law with regard to foreign investors. Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Government has initiated various programs to boost U.S.-Africa trade and investment – from the African Growth
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman President Julius Maada Bio has appeared on a number of television and radio talk shows in Freetown over the last two days to talk about his Presidency. The media events are apparently organized to help him respond to the ongoing Africanist Press investigative reports on
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio, and his wife, Fatima Jabbe Bio, collectively withdrew a total of over Le30 billion Leones (more than US$3 million) from the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL), the country’s central bank, for alleged travel expenses in fiscal year 2020 alone,
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman On March 7, 2021, The Africanist Press reported how officials in charge of managing Sierra Leone’s retirement pensions and social security benefits could not account for over Le60.9 billion (more than US$6 million) for 2019 alone. A special internal audit into the financial status and
