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Daily Briefing| April 20 2020

Sierra Leone may use COVID-19 to centralise control

Publisher: Oxford Analytica
Online ISSN: 2633-304X
© Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice or recommendations that may be relied on. Where links to external websites are provided, this does not indicate that Oxford Analytica or Emerald agree with, endorse or have checked for accuracy the contents of said sites.
2020
Expert Briefings (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB252049
Subject

Sierra Leone's COVID-19 response.

Significance

Sierra Leone has recorded 35 confirmed COVID-19 cases, as of yesterday. President Julius Maada Bio last month declared a one-year state of emergency to help combat the COVID-19 outbreak. While states of emergency are not new in Sierra Leone, the latest is seen as part of a broader centralisation of control by Maada Bio’s government as it seeks to consolidate its power and stifle domestic opposition.

Impacts

A stalled 2-billion-dollar bridge to join the capital Freetown with Lungi airport will likely be put on hold or scrapped.

Relations between Maada Bio and senior military officials will be strained if a former defence minister is prosecuted on treason charges.

Fears will grow over a spike in gender-based violence; a ‘national emergency’ was declared over the crisis last year.

Keywords: Sierra Leone, AF, IMF-World Bank, economy, industry, international relations, politics, corruption, debt, emergency, fiscal, food, foreign investment, government, health, mining, opposition, party, prices, protest, reform, Metals & mining
© Oxford Analytica 2020. All rights reserved. This content contains general information about geopolitical, macroeconomic and social developments or (where stated) other matters. It does not contain advice or recommendations that may be relied on. Where links to external websites are provided, this does not indicate that Oxford Analytica or Emerald agree with, endorse or have checked for accuracy the contents of said sites.
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