Vol 66 No 10 | LIBYASPECIAL REPORT The Gadaffi billions – how Libya plans to reclaim the stolen wealth 8th May 2025 Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi stashed billions in US banks, and now Libya’s power brokers are vying for control of this hidden fortune. The scramble for wealth has ignited a fierce political battle in Tripoli – one so ruthless that the official leading the recovery has been forced into hiding, fearing for his life. An Africa Confidential Special Report by John Hamilton our North Africa correspondent and managing director of Cross-Border Information. After three months in illegal detention – partly in one of Libya’s most brutal prisons – Mohammed al Mensli, Director-General of the Libyan Asset Recovery and Management Office... READ FOR FREE
Vol 65 No 3 | NIGERIASIERRA LEONEECOWAS Anatomy of a failed coup in Freetown 29th January 2024 A band of gunmen hoped to become Africa's newest junta and couldn't muster support, but questions about the role of ex-President Koroma abound Ex-President Ernest Bai Koroma's release for 'medical treatment' in Nigeria and the backroom deal that brought it about has enraged many of President Julius Maada Bio's supporters. Controversy...
Vol 57 No 7 | SIERRA LEONE Reshuffle and a long goodbye 22nd March 2016 A raft of new cabinet appointments has reignited suspicion that President Koroma may be planning to stay on beyond the end of his second term President Ernest Bai Koroma named 13 new ministers and deputy ministers, some of them his most devoted and hardline supporters, on 14 March in Freetown. One Freetown daily...
Vol 46 No 13 | SIERRA LEONE A matter of graft 24th June 2005 The World Bank has postponed indefinitely a donors' meeting on Sierra Leone, which had initially been scheduled for 6 June, as concern grows about high-level corruption in President...
Vol 59 No 13 | SIERRA LEONE Koroma accused of grand corruption 29th June 2018 A transition team report – exclusively obtained by AC – lists wholesale plunder, ethnic favouritism… and how ex-President Koroma profited from it President Julius Maada Bio is to appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into massive state plunder and fraud during Ernest Bai Koroma's two terms of office after receiving... READ FOR FREE