Vol 45 No 25 | SIERRA LEONE Diamond diagnosis 17th December 2004 Official diamond export earnings are set to reach as much as US$120 million for 2004 compared to just over $70 mn. in 2003. This is partly an effect...
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 44 No 22 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Taylor's shadow 7th November 2003 There is a new government but no real peace and far too few peacekeepers Renewed fighting in Liberia's north-east Nimba County rings alarm bells across the region. Fingers are pointing at ousted President Charles Ghankay Taylor, now exiled in south-eastern Nigeria, who...
Vol 44 No 11 | SIERRA LEONE No cash, no court 30th May 2003 The Special Court set up to try those 'who bear most responsibility' for the decade-long civil war faces a cash crisis which may delay trials and scupper plans...
Vol 44 No 4 | SIERRA LEONE Model justice, for some 21st February 2003 War crimes trials start this year but the causes of the war still fester Some 20 to 30 people accused of the most heinous crimes in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war are to be tried this year at the Special Court in...
Vol 43 No 23 | SIERRA LEONE Get with the programme 22nd November 2002 Generous reconstruction aid comes with unprecedented donor micro-management Donors meeting in Paris on 13-14 November pledged US$650 million in aid over four years but that wasn't the meeting's main purpose. Two days of talks with a...
Vol 43 No 11 | SIERRA LEONE Kabbah's cabal 31st May 2002 After an easy election win, the President must tackle corruption and placate the north The elections on 14 May were justifiably hailed as a victory for peace. Veterans said they were the least violent in the country's post-independence history (AC Vol 43...
Vol 43 No 11 | SIERRA LEONE Cabinet making 31st May 2002 President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has kept his supporters close about him in a new 22-member cabinet that shuffles posts but makes no real changes. Past efforts to include...
Vol 43 No 10 | SIERRA LEONE Polling in peace 17th May 2002 The 14 May presidential and parliamentary elections were lauded as the most peaceful in four decades but political problems loom.
Vol 43 No 7 | SIERRA LEONE Heading for the door 5th April 2002 Problems with the election timetable and organisation undermine the huge peacekeeping mission President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah seems sure to win Sierra Leone's presidential election on 14 May. He has support from Sierra Leoneans relieved that peace has come at last...