David Sparkes

Sierra Leone President Earnest Bai Koroma has implementedan agenda of sweeping reforms to attract new investment.Three years into the plan, what are the results?

When Tony Blair stepped into the SierraLeone Trade and Investment Forumheld in London last November, therewas every reason to sense something positivehad begun. The former British prime ministerhad teamed up with Sierra Leone President ErnestBai Koroma to convince the business worldthat the war-torn nation had entered a new eraand was ripe for foreign investment.