Vol 41 No 13 | LIBERIASIERRA LEONE Godfather to the rebels 23rd June 2000 Dealing with Charles Taylor is key to any peace settlement. The question is, how? The latest spate of sabre rattling between Monrovia and Freetown signals the final unravelling of the Sierra Leone peace accord signed in Lomé last July. The governments of...
Vol 56 No 19 | SIERRA LEONE Court rescues Koroma 24th September 2015 Five months after being asked to rule on the President’s summary sacking of his Vice-President, judges have dismayed many by endorsing it In a decision mourned in Freetown's legal and political circles alike, the Supreme Court has ruled that President Ernest Bai Koroma did indeed have the power to sack...
Vol 60 No 7 | SIERRA LEONE Koroma’s record on trial 5th April 2019 Live broadcasts of inquiries into corruption under the last president have the people gripped. But can any crimes be prosecuted? The revelations pouring out of three judicial commissions of inquiry into public corruption under former President Ernest Bai Koroma have the country agog. Live on national radio and...
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 47 No 8 | SIERRA LEONE The accused 14th April 2006 The main point of the United Nations-backed Special Court was to try 'those with the greatest responsibility' for the ten-year war that left 50,000 people dead and half...