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Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio in Freetown, Sierra Leone, June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

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Premium badgeSierra Leone: Bio taps Green Beret as security adviser amid US poll pushback

President Bio’s government has hired Mercury Public Affairs and US Army veteran Jerry Torres to deepen diplomatic and military ties with the Joe Biden...

Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

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Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
A border crossing between Liberia and Sierra Leone. (Reuters/James Giahyue)

wrong move?

Premium badgeLiberia extradites Sierra Leone’s purported coup leader, as presidential candidate cries foul Critics accuse the George Weah government of violating international conventions by responding to Freetown’s extradition request for ex-police chief M...
Supporters of the President of Sierra Leone and Leader of Sierra Leone People’s party (SLPP), Julius Maada Bio, celebrate in the streets following his re-election in Freetown in June 27, 2023.

Four more?

Premium badgeSierra Leone re-elects Maada Bio, opposition rejects results Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio was sworn in Tuesday after he was declared the victor of an election that his main rival slammed as “not cre...

Sierra Leone top stories

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio in Freetown, Sierra Leone, June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

Image makeover

Premium badgeSierra Leone: Bio taps Green Beret as security adviser amid US poll pushback President Bio’s government has hired Mercury Public Affairs and US Army veteran Jerry Torres to deepen diplomatic and military ties with the Joe Biden...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

What’s next?

Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
A border crossing between Liberia and Sierra Leone. (Reuters/James Giahyue)

wrong move?

Premium badgeLiberia extradites Sierra Leone’s purported coup leader, as presidential candidate cries foul Critics accuse the George Weah government of violating international conventions by responding to Freetown’s extradition request for ex-police chief M...

Sierra Leone top stories

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio in Freetown, Sierra Leone, June 24, 2023. REUTERS/Cooper Inveen

Image makeover

Premium badgeSierra Leone: Bio taps Green Beret as security adviser amid US poll pushback President Bio’s government has hired Mercury Public Affairs and US Army veteran Jerry Torres to deepen diplomatic and military ties with the Joe Biden...
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 25 May 2023. (AFP/Concord Group)

What’s next?

Premium badgeThe myth of Wagner in Africa Following the Wagner mutiny that shook President Vladimir Putin in June, and the recent coup in Niger, speculation about the activities of the private...
A border crossing between Liberia and Sierra Leone. (Reuters/James Giahyue)

wrong move?

Premium badgeLiberia extradites Sierra Leone’s purported coup leader, as presidential candidate cries foul Critics accuse the George Weah government of violating international conventions by responding to Freetown’s extradition request for ex-police chief M...

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© A voter casts his ballot for the national election at a polling station in Freetown, Sierra Leone, June 24, 2023. REUTERS

Sierra Leone president Julius Maada leads vote count disputed by opposition Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio was leading the results of the country’s presidential election with 60% of votes counted, the electoral commis...
© Election workers count ballots at a polling station, after polls closed, on the day of the national election, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, June 24, 2023. REUTERS

'relatively peaceful'

Sierra Leone votes amid cost-of-living crisis, delays Vote counting began in Sierra Leone on Saturday following a mostly peaceful general election despite a late start in some polling stations, as the opp...
© File photo of Sierra Leoneans lining up to cast their vote at a polling station 2018. R(EUTERS/Olivia Acland)

crunch time

Premium badgeSierra Leone election: How to tell if the polls will be rigged The temperature is rising in Sierra Leone ahead of general elections on 24 June, and it is not because of climate change.
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One Rulebook

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The great rift

Premium badgeUN: New Security Council members Algeria, Sierra Leone split on Russian war On 6 June, the UN invited two African countries with widely diverging voting records on the war in Ukraine to join its most powerful organ, exacerbati...
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Guilty, again

Swiss court upholds ex-Liberian warlord’s 20-year-sentence A Swiss appeals court on Thursday upheld a 20-year sentence for a former Liberian warlord, confirming his war crimes conviction and, for the first tim...