Former Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh died early on Wednesday at a Freetown hospital, said an official at a United Nations (UN)-backed war crimes court where he was facing trial.
A Boeing 727 cargo plane which caused panic among US intelligence agencies after mysteriously disappearing from Angola’s main airport turned up last week in Guinea.
Liberia’s embattled president, Charles Taylor, accepted an offer of asylum in Nigeria yesterday but gave no indication of when he would leave and insisted that it must be an ”orderly exit from power”.
A United Nation’s (UN) backed war crimes court’s chief prosecutor pledged on Wednesday that the court would bring indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor to trial — but called on the international community to make it happen.
A global initiative to end the trade in ”blood diamonds” has been a mixed success in war-ravaged Sierra Leone with a sharp rise in export earnings but illegal mining flourishing nonetheless.
Sierra Leoneans awaited on Saturday the results of landmark post-war elections widely expected to sweep President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and his party back to power.
Sierre Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah looked on Monday to rebuild his civil-war shattered country, after winning landmark elections.
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone on Tuesday hailed landmark elections in the war-ravaged country as ”exemplary.”
Thousands of Sierra Leoneans began voting on Tuesday in presidential and parliamentary polls aimed at securing peace after a brutal 10-year civil war thought to have claimed up to 200 000 lives.
Sierra Leone’s President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and his SLPP party is poised to win his country’s historic post-war elections, according to preliminary results.
Libya, Nigeria and South Africa have agreed to invest -million each in Sierra Leone to kick start the war-ravaged economy.