The UK government has lost about £2 million ($2.5 million) due to fuel fraud at its diplomatic mission in Sierra Leone, according to a letter made public on Wednesday.
PA via ReutersRishi Sunak makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street, London, after meeting King Charles III and accepting his invitation to become Prime Minister and form a new government. Picture date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022.
As elsewhere, inflation has soared in Sierra Leone since the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, leading to a sharp hike in food and fuel prices. “The staff believed to have been involved have been suspended and disciplinary action is ongoing,” he added. Diamond-rich Sierra Leone is one of the world’s poorest countries and still recovering from a brutal 1991-2002 civil war and the 2014-16 Ebola epidemic.
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