Sierra Leone: President Bio Running the Economy without Mining Export Revenue

Sep 5, 2018 | Abdul Rashid Thomas, Sierra Leone Telegraph
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The 2007 to 2017 reign of the All Peoples Congress Party (APC) can best be described as the mining revolution era in Sierra Leone. Minerals including iron ore, bauxite, gold and diamonds, were mined at record levels. Despite the large amounts of minerals exported out of the country, the average Sierra Leonean did not enjoy the resulting increase in GDP.