By Tidankay Kamara (ATJLF/MRCG Fellow 2025)
Sierra Leone is widely considered to be one of the most politically and economically corrupt nations in the world, and some international rankings reflect this.
As of 2024, for instance, the global corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI)’s Corruption Perceptions Index scored the country at 33 on a scale of 0 (highly corrupted) to 100 (very clean).”
As recorded by the post-war Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), corruption played a crucial role in the outbreak of the 1991-2002 civil war, which was said to have been fueled by years of bad governance, endemic corruption, and the denial of basic human rights, which created the conditions ripe for conflict. Bad governance and endemic corruption stripped the nation off its dignity and reduced most people to poverty, the report notes.
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