- Vol 45 No 25
- 17th December 2004
Will President Kabbah act on a series of damning reports on human
rights and corruption?
- Vol 45 No 25
- 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 of the Kimberley Process, which discourages smuggling, as buyers in Europe will often purchase non-certifi...
- Vol 45 No 14
- 9th July 2004
Freetown's war crimes court slowly establishes a precedent
- Vol 44 No 22
- 7th November 2003
There is a new government but no real peace and far too few peacekeepers
- Vol 44 No 11
- 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 for a new court building and detention centre in Freetown. Government efforts to rebuild the ba...
- Vol 44 No 4
- 21st February 2003
War crimes trials start this year but the causes of the war still fester
- Vol 43 No 23
- 22nd November 2002
Generous reconstruction aid comes with unprecedented donor
micro-management
- Vol 43 No 11
- 31st May 2002
After an easy election win, the President must tackle corruption and placate the north
- Vol 43 No 11
- 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 the Revolutionary United Front ended in disaster. The new lineup claims regional balance...
- Vol 43 No 10
- 17th May 2002
The 14 May presidential and parliamentary elections were lauded as the most peaceful in four decades but political problems loom.