A | Dozens of businesses, government offices, vehicles, and at least three police stations went up in flames in Freetown, Makeni, Kamakwie, and other cities across Sierra Leone from August 10 through 12, with over 113 people arrested and police introducing an emergency nationwide curfew and deploying tear gas and live ammunition to disperse crowds.,The curfew was lifted on August 13, with banks, businesses, government offices, and most stores reopened and communal services beginning to clear the damage. However, ramped-up security measures, including federal troop deployments to assist police, have been left in place.,What Happened?,Sierra Leone is one of the poorest nations in the world, ranking 186 out of 198 in a recent GDP purchasing power parity ranking. An estimated 80 percent of the population lives in poverty, many of them in the country’s rural areas. Like other nations in Africa, the country has faced special difficulties amid the global economic calamity brought on by COVID, and exacerbated by Western restrictions on Russian exports of agricultural goods and fertilizers amid the security crisis in Ukraine, which has caused a major jump in food prices.,AfricaAnti-Russia Sanctions Left Africa Without Access to Grain and Fertilisers, African Union Chief Says3 June, 11:13 GMT,As a net importer of both energy and food, Sierra Leone is especially vulnerable to global economic conditions, and along with food and fertilizers, fuel and electricity costs have also soared. Food prices alone have jumped by over 40 percent over the past few months, with a bag of rice once costing 350 leones now going for over 500. The country’s Central Bank recently removed three zeros from the national currency in a bid to restore confidence. The country has also been overcome by weeks of strikes by government workers, including doctors and teachers, and by small traders protesting poor conditions.,Coup Plot?,However, President Julius Maada Bio has also accused protesters of having ulterior motives beyond the cost of living crisis.,“This was not a protest against the high cost of living occasioned by the ongoing global economic crisis. The chant of the insurrectionists was for a violent overthrow of the democratically-elected government,” Bio said in an address on August 12 after returning to the country from a holiday in London.,Local media pointed to the chants of “Bio must go” among protesters as they gathered in the capital, and the president accused some of the demonstrators of consisting of “APC Warriors,” a reference to the opposition All People’s Congress party, which governed the country from 2007 until 2018, when Bio’s Sierra Leone People’s Party won national elections.,No doubt mindful of the violent civil war which shook the country between 1991 and 2002, claiming as many as 70,000 lives and displacing over 2.5 million people, Bio vowed that “in the coming weeks and months, [the] government will undertake necessary security actions meant to guarantee the peace and security of all citizens.”,“The security forces will, and must, act with great restraint and within their professional codes of service. But be assured that my government will crack down hard on violent insurrectionists, their collaborators, their sponsors and their supporters. My government will relentlessly fight those who would rather use terror and gruesome violence to achieve political goals,” the president said.,As a government, we will continue our engagement with Civil Society as we strive to promote sustainable peace, national cohesion and socio-economic development in Sierra Leone. #newdirectionagenda— President Julius Maada Bio (@PresidentBio) August 18, 2022,Bio did not elaborate on who these “sponsors” and “supporters” were, or whether they included any foreign actors.,Geopolitical Context,Like other African nations, Sierra Leone recently rejected calls by Washington and Brussels to show solidarity with the West and Ukraine and impose sanctions on Russia. But even before the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, relations between Freetown and Washington were tense at times. Last year, US President Joe Biden snubbed Bio by refusing to invite the African leader to the US’ so-called “Democracy Summit.” No reasons were given. However, neighboring Liberia, which faced mass civil unrest of its own between 2019 and 2020, and whose officials have been sanctioned by the US over suspected corruption, did get an invite.,While Sierra Leone maintains economic and political ties with its former British colonial masters, and remains a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Freetown has sought to expand its partnerships with other geopolitical power centers, including Russia and China. President Bio attended the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019, where he discussed ways to strengthen economic cooperation between the distant nations. In February 2021, Freetown signed onto Moscow’s efforts to prevent the deployment of weapons in outer space. In May 2021, Bio spoke by phone to President Xi Jinping of China, where they discussed the friendly, “brotherly” relations between the two nations, as well Chinese assistance to Freetown in measures against COVID, and agricultural and economic development.,In this context, the reactions of major foreign powers to this month’s unrest have been telling. While the United States, Britain, and the European Union collectively expressed “grave concern” over the “disturbing reports of violence” and urged the parties to “stay calm, promote accountability and ensure respect for human rights,” China’s Embassy smoothed over the protests altogether, refraining from wagging its finger at Freetown and instead trumpeting the expanding cooperation between the two countries.,We are gravely concerned by reports of violence surrounding today’s demonstrations in Sierra Leone. We urge all parties to stay calm, promote accountability, and ensure respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.— Bureau of African Affairs (@AsstSecStateAF) August 10, 2022,Similarly, while UK High Commissioner to Sierra Leone Lisa Chesney lectured President Bio about how “violence has no place in a democracy and the necessary investigation into August 10 can sit alongside de-escalation,” the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Guinea, which concurrently serves as the Embassy in Sierra Leone, only presented a bare bones report on the situation in the country, Bio’s meetings with community and tribal leaders, and indicated that an internal “debriefing” was being created “regarding the causes, course and consequences of the riots on August 10.”。 我省大力化解国有企业不动产登记历史遗留问题 “135解遗公式”盘活国有资产约30亿元 近日，国家管网集团北方管道有限责任公司成功拿到1.97万平方米不动产权证书，企业相关负责人冯新欣喜地说：“多次重组改制、坐标点位界址材料不清等历史遗留问题让我们迟迟无法办证，这次真是治好了我们的‘心病’。” 北方管道有限责任公司的成功拿证，是我省深入化解国有企业不动产登记历史遗留问题的工作成果之一。 为全面化解国有企业土地、规划、建设、验收、税费、资产划转等历史遗留问题，今年1月，省自然资源厅会同11家省中直部门，在全国范围内率先出台《关于深入化解国有企业不动产登记历史遗留问题的指导意见》，制定20条创新政策举措，打造“135解遗公式”。“1”是指1个工作理念：坚持解放思想、担当作为、尊重历史，不机械用现在的政策去衡量历史。“3”是指3个工作原则：明晰产权、守住底线、容缺办理。
B | “5”是指5项工作措施：加强组织领导、出台化解政策、台账化管理、主动靠前服务、加强宣传引导。
C | 以国有企业不动产登记办证为契机，理顺企业土地房屋权属、类型、用途，助力显化国有资产价值。 “我们坚持以登记办证为‘小切口’，做好国有资产盘活利用这篇‘大文章’，帮助企业激活要素资源、放大资本功能、提升核心竞争力、增强核心功能。”省自然资源厅确权登记处负责人介绍，前期调研摸排结果显示，全省有479家国企（含各地分公司）有主动办证意愿，希望利用该政策破解自身土地房屋历史遗留问题，省自然资源厅指导沈阳、大连、鞍山、铁岭、盘锦等有条件的地区先试先行，为后续全省开展集中攻坚积累经验。 在鞍山，针对鞍钢集团矿业公司因部分房屋建设后缺少相关审批手续而无法办理不动产权证书的问题，鞍山市自然资源局以“解遗公式”为依据，主动靠前服务，先后4次上门与企业共谋办法、共制方案，目前已为企业确权25处土地房产，面积12.37万平方米，办理不动产权证书148本，夯实国有资产价值2.4亿元，为企业上市融资创造了条件。 不仅房屋因历史遗留问题“不能办证”，一些建设项目用地亦是如此。
D | 位于大连的省交投集团沈大与大庄高速公路连接线建设项目，因征地时间早、线路跨度长、历史资料分散，完成地籍调查存在较大难度。
E | 大连市自然资源局指导大连金普新区创新优化地籍调查程序，为企业提供数据矢量化服务，解决高速路项目界址点不清楚等难点问题，为项目280余万平方米土地办理了17本不动产权证书。 据介绍，截至目前，全省已为30余家国企破解历史遗留问题452个，办理不动产权证书752本，盘活国有资产约30亿元。 责任编辑：刘春阳。
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