Vol 54 No 6 | SIERRA LEONE Trouble in the hills 15th March 2013 Social tension has twice erupted into violence around African Minerals Limited’s Tonkolili mine. In late 2010, AML caused alarm when it started to build a dam on a...
Vol 66 No 4 | SIERRA LEONENETHERLANDS Freetown falls out with the Hague over cocaine 14th February 2025 A diplomatic row is brewing after the revelations about Jos Leijdekkers’s drugs empire Top officials in Freetown have expressed annoyance at the time it took the Dutch government to apply for the extradition of convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, despite telling...
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 41 No 24 | SIERRA LEONE Bringing back the British 8th December 2000 Critically dependent on UN and British military support, President Kabbah's government is facing growing civilian opposition Desperation and nostalgia help explain why more than 5,000 Sierra Leoneans crowded in to the National Stadium in Freetown on 23 November to show their support for British...
Vol 41 No 14 | SIERRA LEONE Kabbah in court 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...