Massaquoi Gibril
21st May 2021
Sankoh Foday
21st May 2021
62/11 | War crimes trial divides justice-seekers
Echoes of the horrific civil wars of Sierra Leone and Liberia on the cusp of the 21st century still sound through the world even as far as the Finnish city of Tampere two hours' drive from the capital Helsinki. In a move which has divided human rights
21st May 2021
62/5 | The money-sharing puzzle
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stalled a G20 plan for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue hundreds of millions of dollars in Special Drawing Rights (SDR) which can be traded for hard currency when she introduced demands for gr
4th Mar 2021
61/22 | Condé shrugs off poll doubts
Whether his win with 59.49% of the votes in the 18 October elections was credible or not matters little to President Alpha Condé and his governing team. On 24 October the Commission Électorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) announced Condé's victor
30th Oct 2020
61/21 | Koroma probe risks backlash
In what government supporters see as a watershed moment and critics say is a precursor to civil unrest formal corruption investigations have opened against former President Ernest Bai Koroma. He is now immured in his home in the All People's Congress str
14th Oct 2020
61/19 | Strife hampers Bio's reforms
Rowdy partisan battles and a pandemic-weakened economy are slowing the government's efforts to create jobs and invest in education and public health. Promoting national reconciliation after two decades of civil strife is proving harder than the cheerleade
21st Sep 2020
61/16 | Polls boss row
Two years after bitterly disputed and tight presidential elections political leaders have divided along party lines over the appointment of the National Electoral Commission's (NEC) new head. Mohamed Konneh was appointed by President Julius Maada Bio wh
6th Aug 2020
61/13 | Frelimo’s belated cry for help
The crash of a Bathawk microlight aircraft belonging to the Dyck Advisory Group private military contractor (PMC) in Mozambique on 15 June has thrown a spotlight on a topic Maputo and Pretoria would prefer to keep hidden – the status of this force i
25th Jun 2020
61/8 | The war for the cure
Serial financial crises and political meddling have weakened the operations of the World Health Organisation for decades but the rivalries between the United States and China over the coronavirus pandemic have taken it to new depths. Those rivalries may a
16th Apr 2020
