Libya: How Libya’s Gaddafi-Era Graft Saddled Sierra Leone With a Faulty Ferry

In 2006, Muammar Gaddafi set out to invest billions in oil money across the continent, but even a simple project to add a Libyan-owned ferry line to Sierra Leone was undermined by nepotism and corruption. The factional chaos that followed Gaddafi’s fall has meant that nobody ever faced a reckoning.

Sana Sbouai, Khadija Sharife, and Mustapha Sesay KEY FINDINGS

• A Libyan state investment fund allocated $4 million to buy a new ferry for Sierra Leone, but a relative of Gaddafi, Abdusalam Abulghasem…