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Sierra Leone

Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser

Date of Birth: 26 April 1967
Place of Birth: Freetown, Sierra Leone


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Soldiers for sale

Managing Director Eeben Barlow has sharp political and economic antennae: in Angola the government had won a free election and in Sierra Leone EO was invited in by the charismatic young Captain Valentine Strasser who promised democracy...


Falling out parade

Encouraging Bio and his boys to demobilise (there is talk of an elaborate pension plan) would put control of the army back in the hands of officers who held middle rank before the 1992 coup when Captain Valentine Strasser overthrew Gen...


Diamonds, dollars and democracy

But one newspaper had to back down after reporting allegations that former President Captain Valentine Strasser sold a large pink to a Scandinavian buyer...


A curious coup

Brigadier Julius Maada-Bio's announcement that he will not postpone elections scheduled for 26 February following his 16 January coup against Captain Valentine Strasser has several caveats...


Improbable poll

Soldiers in Captain Valentine Strasser's National Provisional Ruling Council have emerged as the real backers of the National Unity Party but are divided on the transition to civil rule...


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