Sierra Leone: Few Benefit From Growth
Although listed by the International Monetary Fund as one of the world's fastest growing economies, not all benefit from the post-civil war boom.
A bustling Freetown market.
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Africa:
Four Successful Countries Lay Plans for Future Success
State Department, 29 March 2013
Sierra Leone, Senegal, Malawi and Cape Verde are four African countries that have made remarkable progress in the last few years in establishing peace, building democracy, and… Read more »
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Sierra Leone:
MCC Meet Development Partners
Sierra Leone Government, 30 January 2013
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact Development Coordinating Office, in the Office of the President at State House, has on Tuesday 29th January 2013 engaged… Read more »
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Sierra Leone:
Youth Unemployment - a Threat to Sierra Leone's Security?
UNIRIN, 5 November 2012
Sierra Leone has come a long way since the brutal 1991-2002 civil war, which left thousands dead, countless numbers displaced, and the country's economy and institutions in… Read more »
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Sierra Leone:
80 Percent Sierra Leoneans Still Going Hungry - FAO Country Director
Concord, 22 October 2012
Country Director of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) yesterday informed newsmen at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security conference room that about… Read more »
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Sierra Leone:
IMF Approves U.S. $6.9 Million Disbursement
IMF, 18 September 2012
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the fourth review of Sierra Leone's economic performance under a program supported by the Extended… Read more »
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Sierra Leone:
Maintaining the Trajectory
Concord, 11 September 2012
Sierra Leone is at a crossroad, especially so within the last 58 months given the progress that this small West African state, with less than seven million people, has continued to… Read more »