66/13 | Gavi vaccine summit seeks a shot in the arm
Public health systems in Africa and Asia could face more pressure on their budgets on 25 June when Gavi the global vaccine alliance holds its five-year donor pledging summit in Brussels (Dispatches 3/3/25 Why Washington's aid freeze could cost tens of
20th Jun 2025
66/10 | Auxillia courts the London crowd
Despite accusations of electoral fraud and massive corruption against the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front President Emmerson Mnangagwa's wife Auxillia has been invited to a summit in London of ‘Africa's most influential wom
16th May 2025
66/10 | First Lady under fire
President Julius Maada Bio's wife Fatima Maada Bio has bought a string of luxury properties in the Gambia worth over US$2 million since 2020 according to an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project on 10 May. Acquired under
16th May 2025
66/8 | Mamady Doumbouya plots a popular mandate
One is a self-promoted general – Mamady Doumbouya head of the military junta the Comité national du rassemblement pour le développement (CNRD) in power since September 2021. The other was an army captain – Moussa Dadis Camara who participa
14th Apr 2025
Aki-Sawyerr Yvonne
11th Apr 2025
66/8 | Contenders to succeed Maada Bio start the race early
Less than two years into his second – and final – five-year presidential term Julius Maada Bio is mulling both his legacy and a succession plan for 2028. The positioning has started within his ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). And st
11th Apr 2025
Kanneh Alusine
26th Mar 2025
66/7 | The Hague doubts that Bio’s government will arrest cocaine kingpin
Alusine Kanneh Sierra Leone's Chief Immigration Officer has been dismissed as questions about his relationship with notorious cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers have mounted and evidence of past dishonesty has accumulated although other officials includ
26th Mar 2025
66/4 | Freetown falls out with the Hague over cocaine
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 the media they had known where he was for months following the revelat
14th Feb 2025
President Bio keeps cocaine lord in the family
Download a pdf of this reportSierra Leone has been in a state of shock ever since one of Freetown’s most astonishing urban myths was confirmed as fact – that one of Europe’s most dangerous criminals, convicted Dutch cocaine kingpin Jos L
1st Feb 2025