West Africa

Africell, Telecom Operators owe Sierra Leone Le88.1 billion in debts

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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 […]

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ACC, SLCAA, and Sierra Leone’s missing foreign travel taxes

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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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Le3.2 billion foreign travel tax revenue missing in Sierra Leone

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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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Sierra Leone: Audit Report shows a Le2.1 billion missing timber revenue

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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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Trust the Messenger: Why who is saying what matters for Covid-19 communication in Sierra Leone

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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

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From Freetown to “Treetown”: Can urban reforestation build environmental resilience in Sierra Leone’s capital?

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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

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Nigeria’s Coalition for Revolution Calls for National Day of Action on August 5th Against Corruption, Exploitation, and Repression

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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

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Triple A Passes On! An Appreciation

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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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Workplace injustice in Sierra Leone: Unlawful dismissals at the Bank of Sierra Leone

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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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Maada Bio and Foreign Diplomats: A Failed Effort to Impress International Support

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  By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Matthew Anderson Julius Maada Bio, the president of Sierra Leone finally met with foreign diplomats this past Thursday for the first time since he delivered his now infamous May 8 statement in which he called leaders of the country’s leading opposition party – the APC – as “domestic

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