On 18 April 2026, the cargo vessel Arconian docked at Freetown’s Queen Elizabeth II Quay. According to a Guardian investigation published on 14 October, Western intelligence sources reported that the vessel loaded a substantial quantity of cocaine in Freetown before Spanish authorities intercepted it off the coast of Western Sahara on 1 May. The investigation alleged that Dutch fugitive…
By Sheriff Mahmud Ismail Recent signals from Donald Trump’s evolving Africa policy are reverberating in Sierra Leone, where President Julius Maada Bio appears to be aligning closely with Washington amid growing domestic and international scrutiny. At a recent meeting in Miami, Trump publicly acknowledged Bio, a moment that officials in Freetown interpret as a diplomatic breakthrough. For Bio’s administration,…
The continued detention of Zainab Sheriff has outgrown the narrow confines of a courtroom proceeding and transformed into something far more consequential, a defining moment that now forces Sierra Leone to confront uncomfortable questions about the true state of its democracy, the elasticity of its justice system, and the cost of political expression in a climate where dissent increasingly…
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone has launched a formal investigation into the operations of the Sierra Leone Law School, following the receipt of an official complaint that has now triggered what could become one of the most closely watched institutional probes in the country’s legal education system in recent years. In a detailed press release issued from…
