- Vol 43 No 7
- 5th April 2002
Problems with the election timetable and organisation undermine the huge peacekeeping mission
- Vol 43 No 7
- 5th April 2002
The slaughter in Sierra Leone was mainly about resources and most people's lack of them. For decades, the Freetown elite and its foreign friends kept the spoils of the diamond business; for most of the past decade, the Revolutionary United Front controlle...
- Vol 42 No 16
- 10th August 2001
Poisoned by Liberia's support for the rebel Revolutionary United Front, relations between President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government and President Charles Taylor face a new test. They are set to become partners in developing the region's oil resources.
- Vol 42 No 13
- 29th June 2001
The fighters are disarming and demobilising fast but the much
tougher job of building the peace remains to be done
- Vol 42 No 13
- 29th June 2001
Ukrainian businessman Leonid Minin, named by Africa Confidential and the United Nations sanctions committee as a leading arms supplier to the Revolutionary United Front, was rearrested by Italian police in the early hours of 21 June in the company of two ...
- Vol 42 No 5
- 9th March 2001
Putting off elections for six months is delaying the evil day
- Vol 41 No 24
- 8th December 2000
Critically dependent on UN and British military support, President
Kabbah's government is facing growing civilian opposition
- Vol 41 No 14
- 7th July 2000
Belgium's Chatelet Investment Company is suing the government in the first such case in a local court. Its lawyers, Banda Thomas and Co., appeared before High Court Justice Joe Masallay on 5 July claiming President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government has fail...
- Vol 41 No 13
- 23rd June 2000
Dealing with Charles Taylor is key to any peace settlement.
The question is, how?
- Vol 41 No 12
- 9th June 2000
The credibility of the UN and British missions depends on the
contest between around 25,000 Sierra Leonean fighters