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
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman A special internal audit into the financial status and operational activities of Sierra Leone’s National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), the country’s social security agency, has discovered that officials in charge of managing retirement pensions and issuing social security benefits to workers and their
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In our first report on the Office of the Chief Minister of Sierra Leone published on February 14, 2021, we showed how the Office of the Chief Minister spent over Le34.2 billion Leones (more than US$3.4 million) in less than three years without following the
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Financial records obtained by the Africanist Press show how the Office of the Chief Minister of Sierra Leone spent over Le34.2 billion Leones (more than US$3.4 million) in less than three years despite the fact that President Maada Bio was elected into office under the
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In two previous reports published on January 18 and 25 2021, we showed how the wife of the president of Sierra Leone, Madam Fatima Jabbe Bio, received nearly Le30 billion Leones (almost US$3 million) of government funds in less than three years after the inauguration
