Sierra Leone
Update on Ibrahim Bah, Charles Taylor’s gun and diamond runner
As reported here last week, Ibrahim Bah, the man who for years managed the transit of weapons from Liberia into Sierra Leone in exchange for blood diamonds, has been arrested in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Sierra Leonean authorities, according the the Freetown newspaper Awoko, have now confirmed he is in their custody.
Top gun runner for Charles Taylor arrested in Freetown
Ibrahim Bah acted as a liaison for the former Liberian dictator
Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 Years in Jail
A summary of the sentencing is here.
Charles Taylor and the tarnished pursuit of justice
When old Nazi collaborators are found here, our government responds. Not so when an alleged African war criminal is discovered
A tyrant on trial
It can be lonely writing about and covering wars and humans rights atrocities in Africa. Nobody really cares – at least not as much as they might had the victims been from almost anywhere else on the planet.
Canada spends millions on the court that’s prosecuting Charles Taylor-but doesn’t want to protect the man who risked his life to bring the tyrant to justice
From this week’s print magazine. The story, in a nutshell, is this: