Sierra Leone

The government has yet to respond to the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which released a first version of its final report in October. There is...

Official diamond export earnings are set to reach as much as US$120 million for 2004 compared to just over $70 mn. in 2003. This is partly an effect...

While the spotlight shines on the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in the Hague and the indictment of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, the trial of some of those deemed...

Renewed fighting in Liberia's north-east Nimba County rings alarm bells across the region. Fingers are pointing at ousted President Charles Ghankay Taylor, now exiled in south-eastern Nigeria, who...

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...

Some 20 to 30 people accused of the most heinous crimes in Sierra Leone's brutal civil war are to be tried this year at the Special Court in...

Donors meeting in Paris on 13-14 November pledged US$650 million in aid over four years but that wasn't the meeting's main purpose. Two days of talks with a...

The elections on 14 May were justifiably hailed as a victory for peace. Veterans said they were the least violent in the country's post-independence history (AC Vol 43...

President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has kept his supporters close about him in a new 22-member cabinet that shuffles posts but makes no real changes. Past efforts to include...

The 14 May presidential and parliamentary elections were lauded as the most peaceful in four decades but political problems loom.