Vol 58 No 17 | SIERRA LEONE Sugar loaf sell-out 25th August 2017 Freetown politicians, Western embassies and property speculators face some tough questions about responsibility for the Mount Sugar Loaf landslide on 14 August in which more than 500 died,...
Vol 38 No 12 | SIERRA LEONE The coup-makers 6th June 1997 Most members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council are little known, being drawn from young, ill-educated and poorly trained junior officers and other ranks. All have benefited from...
Vol 45 No 14 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE No peace without justice 9th July 2004 Freetown's war crimes court slowly establishes a precedent While the spotlight shines on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague and the indictment of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, the trial of some of those deemed...
Vol 56 No 6 | SIERRA LEONE Koroma lashes out 20th March 2015 President Ernest Bai Koroma has removed Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana from office even though he does not apparently have the powers to do so. Koroma claimed that Sam-Sumana's action...
Vol 50 No 9 | SIERRA LEONE Ernest's election 1st May 2009 After seeing off his rivals in the APC, President Koroma has to find some employment for the restless youth Against a background of heightening inter-party violence, President Ernest Bai Koroma has been re-elected leader of the governing All People's Congress at the party's national conference in Makeni...