Vol 64 No 18 | SIERRA LEONE President Bio taps Trump ally as security worries grow 31st August 2023 Government hires US lobbyists after election dispute escalates and senior military officers are arrested United States defence consultant Jerry Torres has struck an agreement with Julius Maada Bio that he says will make him National Security Advisor to the newly re-elected President...
Vol 53 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE Clouds over Koroma’s victory 30th November 2012 Claims of electoral fraud and threats of militant protest by the opposition shadow the start of the President’s second term President Ernest Bai Koroma avoided a potentially contentious second-round in the presidential poll by defeating Julius Maada Bio outright on 17 November. It was announced on 23 November...
Vol 39 No 10 | SIERRA LEONEBRITAIN The Freetown fall-out 15th May 1998 Politicians, civil servants and security men slug it out in a Whitehall row as the desperate plight of Sierra Leone comes a poor second Bafflement and disgust are the main reactions in Freetown to the row that has blown up in Britain about President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's hiring of London-based security outfit...
Vol 62 No 11 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE War crimes trial divides justice-seekers 21st May 2021 A warlord granted immunity for giving key evidence against ex-President Charles Taylor is himself in the dock facing similar charges Echoes of the horrific civil wars of Sierra Leone and Liberia on the cusp of the 21st century still sound through the world, even as far as the...
Vol 50 No 15 | LIBERIARWANDASIERRA LEONESUDAN International justice and its pitfalls 24th July 2009 The current array of international tribunals has its roots in the 1990s. With the Cold War over, a spate of atrocious wars broke out in areas that no...