FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's anti-graft commission has indicted 29 state employees - including the country's top doctor - for corruption, most of it linked to the misuse of funds from a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-backed vaccine provider, officials said on Friday.
The GAVI Alliance put on hold some $6 million (4 million pounds) in grants late last year after an internal audit found more than $1 million already disbursed for the impoverished West African nation's health sector had gone missing.
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