Sierra Leone's Energy Minister Kanja Sesay resigned on Friday over a weeks-long electricity crisis, the same day the government announced it had paid some of the tens of millions of dollars it owed to energy providers.

Sierra Leone said it settled part of a bill owed to Karpowership to restore power to the capital after weeks of electricity cuts.

Sierra Leone's minister of energy resigned on Friday, according to the president's office, against a backdrop of recent

Electricity supplies have been restored to Sierra Leone following weeks of power cuts, after it paid off part of the $48m (£38m) bill it owed to a Turkish company. The $18m payment came as the country's energy minister resigned,