By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman The Africanist Press has received a press release from Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) that is supposedly responding to our October 15 publication on a Le3.2 billion missing foreign travel tax revenues for the fiscal year 2019 that were paid by Air Peace into the […]
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman An internal fraud investigation instituted by the management of Sierra Leone’s National Revenue Authority (NRA) on the collection of Foreign Travel Tax (FTT) has revealed a pattern of missing tax revenues and failure to collect billions of Leones in outstanding taxes from foreign airlines operating
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman A government audit report into the financial activities of the Maada Bio administration for the fiscal year 2019 shows major discrepancies in the accounting of timber exports by Leadway Trading SL Ltd., the sole exporter of timber in the country. The audit alleges that government
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By Nina Meghji Messaging at the start of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone was problematic. A lack of trust in the government and authorities, widespread misinformation, impracticable advice and culturally irrelevant and insensitive information were among the factors that contributed to the spread of the virus. Communicating the right messages through trusted channels
By Nina Meghji On 14 August 2017, a devastating mudslide claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people in the hillside village of Regent, 6km east of the capital, Freetown. Mudslides are an increasingly frequent occurrence in Sierra Leone. According to Dr Joseph Macarthy, Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Urban Research Centre (SLURC), they
Press Release: Corruption, Exploitation and Repression must be Stopped FIGHT FOR REVOLUTION NOW! A CALL TO JOIN THE 05 AUGUST #DayOfRage FOR NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION The situation in the country for poor people keeps getting worse. While poverty continues to increase for the many, the rate of stealing of monies that could be
By Ibrahim Abdullah Arthur Antar Abraham, triple A for short, (aka Karmoh), was unarguably the historians’ historian amongst the first generation of university trained historians that the Sierra Leone academy produced. Not only was he of a leftist/pan-Africanist persuasion amidst mainstream empiricists and middle of the road fellow travelers, Abraham had a much broader research
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The Africanist Press publishes the following statement from the Lunsar Advocacy Group in the United States of America to express our solidarity in the ongoing defense of the rights of Professor Sheikh Umarr Conteh who is currently detained without charge in Sierra Leone. Read the full statement below: “Our lives begin to end the day
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By Ibrahim Abdullah Walter Anthony Rodney is arguably the most important theoretician cum activist-scholar—in the mold of C.L.R. James and W.E.B. Dubois—who lived and worked in Africa, and approached the troubling question of African identity and liberation from the vantage point of Pan-Africanism. Born of working class parentage in Guyana in 1942, Walter grew up
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In March of this year, Africanist Press published three articles in our Sierra Leone investigation series, which 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 an explosive
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