OpenTax Initiative

National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives launches two reports, calls for clear strategy on Sierra

The National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives (NACE) has launched two reports on Sierra Leone’s extractives sector and called on the...

Shandong forges terminal benefit policy in violation of labour laws in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone's labour ministry has warned Chinese owned Shandong Steel, the largest iron ore miner, against violating labour laws that...

Tax revolution in Sierra Leone: Banks aid revenue authority to recover tax debts

Sierra Leone’s National Revenue Authority (NRA) has written to all commercial banks stopping them from releasing funds from accounts of...

Open Tax Initiative explains how tax defaults may halt operations of state owned telco, telecom regu

According to the executive director of Open Tax Initiative, Tanu Jalloh, telecoms regulator National Telecommunications Commission(Natcom)...

IMANI’s Analysis and Recommendations Ahead of the March 7 Presidential Elections in Sierra Leone

The OpenTax Initiative has read, endorsed and adopted especially recommendations on the economy as presented in the IMANIFESTO Report on...

“The world’s first blockchain elections” in Sierra Leone is fake news

The hype around so called applications of “blockchain technology” is nothing new, as many people have successfully used it to get free...

How Airtel’s subsidiaries paid Intelsat’s Mauritius-based company for services in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, like the Republic of Congo, Chad, Gabon, Madagascar, Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo, may have lost huge amounts...

Aid Workers’ sex scandal in Africa: Report reveals role of famous night club Paddy's Bar, now Qu

Mirror, in the UK, has reported that a study of more than 1,500 people revealed a lack of senior and international staff in camps allowed...

Sierra Leone still associated with conflict diamonds for supplying stones without the mandatory Kimb

Do you know that 'conflict diamond' trading is still rampant in Surat, a city in the Indian state of Gujarat, now a center for diamond...

Opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party identifies huge challenges in the current tax system and prop

Current revenue policy and administration is faced with a couple of challenges which the New Direction [manifesto] aims to reverse. These...