Vol 53 No 12 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Warning to future Taylors 8th June 2012 Most people implicated in the warlord president’s crimes have escaped justice but his sentence will still deter others Trial Chamber II of the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on 30 May sentenced Charles Ghankay Taylor to 50 years in prison for his central role...
Vol 52 No 23 | SIERRA LEONE Ferry fiasco dents Koroma’s standing 18th November 2011 Anti-corruption momentum is slackening as the President gauges a growing political threat from the opposition On taking office in 2007, President Ernest Bai Koroma vowed to run the country as a ‘business venture’. What he did not intend was the state social security...
Vol 41 No 5 | NIGERIA In God's name 3rd March 2000 The agitation for Islamic law is as much political and ethnic as it is religious; its proponents have weakened and divided the North The government appears to have negotiated a respite in its latest crisis. On 29 February the governors of five northern states said they would stop plans to enforce...
Vol 57 No 23 | NIGERIA Political schisms hit recovery and reform 18th November 2016 Economic stagnation and rising prices are eroding the regional alliances at the heart of Buhari’s government Arguments over the response to the country's worst recession for 25 years are threatening to split the governing All Progressives' Congress. The APC is a fragile alliance between... READ FOR FREE
Vol 46 No 7 | NIGERIA Oloibiri, oil capital 1st April 2005 There is no power or running water in Oloibiri, the town that hosted Nigeria's first oil well, and few visible signs of progress after five decades of oil...