Vol 41 No 12 | SIERRA LEONE Kabbah, the survivor 9th June 2000 Sankoh's absence - even if temporary - boosts Kabbah but the soldiers manoevre The arrest and detention on 19 May of Corporal Foday Sankoh, leader of the Revolutionary United Front, strengthened President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's weak and too conciliatory government. Kabbah...
Vol 64 No 21 | SIERRA LEONE Travel bans and training 19th October 2023 The unusual part-lobbying part-security pact between recently re-elected President Julius Maada Bio and former Green Beret and United States defence consultant Jerry Torres continues to take shape. Washington...
Vol 54 No 10 | SIERRA LEONE Impunity in Freetown 10th May 2013 An arms and gem dealer for the civil war militias lives openly in the capital with apparent government approval and in defiance of UN sanctions Africa Confidential has discovered the whereabouts of one of the key financiers and middlemen who worked for the Liberian ex-President and convicted war criminal, Charles Taylor, during the...
Vol 51 No 10 | SIERRA LEONE Anti-corruption chief quits 14th May 2010 The resignation on 7 May of Abdul Tejan-Cole as Commissioner and Chief Prosecutor of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) signals a growing malaise in the government of President...
Vol 42 No 5 | SIERRA LEONE The cost of Kabbah 9th March 2001 Putting off elections for six months is delaying the evil day That consummate survivor President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has done it again. He has persuaded parliament, if not the voters, that his increasingly unpopular government should be given another...