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/ 19 January 2004
A seemingly intractable dispute is under way in Sierra Leone between hawkers and those who are tired of weaving their way through the teeming roadside markets that have sprung up in the capital. Authorities recently launched a programme called Operation Free Flow to clear Freetown’s streets of vendors.
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/ 5 December 2003
It is a measure of the frustration people in Sierra Leone feel about corruption that a rap album dealing with this subject has topped the country’s music charts. Sierra Leone has become notorious for widespread corruption in the public and private sectors and the public has lost confidence in an anti-corruption commission.
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.
More than 40 NGOs and 67 individuals have been implicated in allegations that aid was withheld unless paid for by sex. AUDREY Gillan talks to the victims of aid workers and foreign peacekeepers who misused their power.
Sierra Leone’s new Truth and Reconciliation Commission intends to start receiving statements from the public and conducting hearings in October.
Some fear that Carlos Cardoso’s murder might never be fully investigated as ‘many more crimes’ would be uncovered Rehad Desai It has been more than three months since the assassination of Mozambique’s leading investigative journalist, Carlos Cardoso. Last week the minister of police announced he had captured the hit men responsible. The announcement was followed […]