The Cocaine Fugitive at the Heart of Sierra Leone’s Power Circles: How Bolle Jos Allegedly Built Influence, Evaded Extradition and Deepened the Country’s Drug Crisis

Dutch Special Forces, Cocaine Empires and the Sierra Leone Connection: How “Bolle Jos” Allegedly Built One of Europe’s Most Dangerous Drug Networks From Freetown For years, Sierra Leone fought to rebuild its global image after a brutal civil war, presenting itself as a recovering democracy open for investment, tourism and international partnerships. But beneath the speeches of reform and…

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Sierra Leone: Lobbying for Legitimacy, At What Cost?

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,…

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How Zainab Sheriff’s Detention Has Become a Defining Test of Justice, Power and Political Freedom in Sierra Leone

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…

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Anti Corruption Commission Opens Sweeping Probe into Sierra Leone Law School as Corruption Allegations Surface

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…

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