The government in Sierra Leone announced Friday an immediate ban on the transport and export of logs, in an effort to crackdown on a largely uncontrolled, multi-million-dollar industry. President Ernest Koroma's office said in a statement that "illegal logging is having adverse effect on the country's environment and depleting the ozone layer and most be stopped with immediate ...

Sierra Leone appealed on Wednesday for increased foreign investment, portraying itself as a country fast recovering from a brutal civil war, in a trade forum backed by former British premier Tony Blair. President Ernest Bai Koroma told hundreds of delegates in London that such a conference would have been "a pipe dream" a decade ago. But just seven years after ...