Vol 54 No 10 | SIERRA LEONE Impunity in Freetown 10th May 2013 An arms and gem dealer for the civil war militias lives openly in the capital with apparent government approval and in defiance of UN sanctions Africa Confidential has discovered the whereabouts of one of the key financiers and middlemen who worked for the Liberian ex-President and convicted war criminal, Charles Taylor, during the...
Vol 42 No 5 | SIERRA LEONE The cost of Kabbah 9th March 2001 Putting off elections for six months is delaying the evil day That consummate survivor President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has done it again. He has persuaded parliament, if not the voters, that his increasingly unpopular government should be given another...
Vol 56 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE Chinese inherit law suit 4th December 2015 While villagers sue a major mine over human rights abuses, all the country’s iron ore mines remain out of action Bankrupt iron-ore mining company African Minerals Limited is being sued for millions of dollars by 142 Sierra Leonean villagers in the High Court in London claiming human rights...
Vol 54 No 25 | SIERRA LEONE Changing the constitution 12th December 2013 After two seats controversially changed hands, the governing All People’s Congress (APC) is just one seat short of a two-thirds majority in Parliament. That’s the vote needed, if...
Vol 37 No 3 | SIERRA LEONE Big sister's olive branch 2nd February 1996 Brigadier Maada Bio wants a family reconciliation to help end the rebel war Freetown may be stumbling into a peace deal of sorts with the rebels it has been fighting for the last four years. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio and his...