Sierra Leone: UK drops privatization PR contract

The UK Government has backed down in the face of demands that it stop using aid money to fund privatization of public relations in the world's second poorest country. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has written to all eight companies short listed for a contract to provide communication support to the Sierra Leone Commission for Privatisation stating they will not fund a campaign to "promote privatisation". This reverses the terms of the original contract.