Since the announcement by the Government of Sierra Leone on 31st March 2020 of the advent of the COVID 19 virus in Sierra Leone, a number of actions have been taken by the Government to what is effect wage war on the disease. A state of public health emergency pursuant to section (29)(1) of the...Read More

Although rumors abounded about the existence of oil and gas potentials in Sierra Leone pre the 1980s, the history of oil and gas exploration is said to have actually commenced with two rounds of exploration in the offshore sectors of Sierra Leone and Liberia. A total of nine wells were drilled offshore in Sierra Leone...Read More

On 31st March 2020 the Government of Sierra Leone announced the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Sierra Leone. Consequent upon the said announcement, several measures have been taken by the Government to contain the spread and this includes but not limited to the imposition of a curfew, movement of goods, services and persons restricted, a...Read More

Blessed with enviable deposits of a plethora of mineral resources such as diamond, rutile, ilmenite, bauxite, gold, iron ore, limonite, platinum, chromite (columbite-tantalite) i.e. coltan, tantalite, columbite and zircon; and as if that was not enough the discovery of very promising oil and gas reserves offshore, Sierra Leone has rather shot to fame for a...Read More

Sierra Leone continues to beckon a flurry of foreign direct investment (FDI) and despite the advent of COVID-19, there has been some uptake in the requests for advice on Mergers and Acquisitions in Sierra Leone quite recently. If the current trends are anything to go by, this is likely to ramp up quite considerably. Borrowing...Read More