Group: Tax rich to fund vaccines for poor hit by pandemic

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Group: Tax rich to fund vaccines for poor hit by pandemic

Anti-poverty organization Oxfam called Monday for governments to impose a one-time 99% tax on the world’s billionaires and use the

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President Bio suspends Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce – Sierra Leone’s most trusted public servant

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 November 2021: If there is one single political objective president Julius Maada Bio has been nursing since coming to power in 2018, it is the sacking of Sierra Leone's most trusted public servant – the country’s Auditor General Mrs Lara Taylor Pearce whose annual audit

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