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Warning to future Taylors

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 53 No 12 |
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Sanogo ponders compromise

There are signs the coup leader, if not his radical civilian supporters, may be moving to restore constitutional rule

Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo has begun to distance himself from his hardline radical supporters and could well be on the road back to accepting constitutional rule. Sources in...


    Vol 53 No 12 |
  • MALI

Pushing the putsch

Captain Amadou Sanogo’s military followers duly saluted his 20 May deal to back Dioncounda Traoré as interim President, but his radical civilian allies were determined to press...


    Vol 53 No 12 |
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Islamic state

After weeks of wrangling, Tuareg nationalists and their jihadist allies reached a shaky agreement to share power in northern Mali and formally declared the Islamic Republic of Azawad...


Undiplomatic diplomats

China is Sierra Leone’s largest foreign investor. However, you would not know that from the chaotic state of Sierra Leone’s mission in Beijing, which has had to change...


Fuel fraud fans public anger

Jonathan has to choose between penalising his friends and the final collapse of his government’s credibility over the fuel subsidy racket

The belated announcement by President Goodluck Jonathan on 22 May that he wants the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to act on the US$6.8 billion fuel subsidy fraud...


    Vol 53 No 11 |
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Tuaregs talk government

The MNLA and the jihadists try to form a government for ‘Azawad’

While demonstrators stormed the presidential palace in Bamako and assaulted interim President Dioncounda Traoré, the leaders of the Tuareg revolt were hammering out a provisional government for what...


The founder's fury

The National Democratic Congress government is reeling from a fusillade of abuse by the party’s founder, ex-President Jerry John Rawlings, who describes the people around President John Atta...


Champagne for the candidates

Both Koroma and Bio try to shrug off accusations of chicanery and greed as they prepare for an epic presidential struggle

When the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) chose Julius Maada Bio to compete against President Ernest Bai Koroma last year, the pro-government media reckoned the November 2012 polls...


Return of the RUF

As Sierra Leone absorbs the guilty verdict on Liberian former President Charles Ghankay Taylor for ‘aiding and abetting’ Revolutionary United Front rebels, the Revolutionary United Front Party, a...


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