Dirk Niebel

SIERRA LEONE: Cocaine Cartels and the Rise of State Capture

20/02/2025

Sierra Leone has come under renewed scrutiny as a key transit hub for international drug trafficking. A damning report by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and [Read more]

Critique Column

Sierra Leoneans Will Not Forgive or Forget Anyone Who Makes Their Country a Drug Den

20/02/2025

Sierra Leone has a rich history, from slavery and the slave trade as one of the worst indelible marks on the conscience of mankind, to Sierra Leone emerging as a [Read more]

Africa

Burkina Faso: The Machiavellian Threat to African Leaders.

15/02/2025

Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre [Read more]

Sierra Leone: The Rise, Ruin, and Reckoning of a Nation

01/02/2025

Ask Anyone from my generation who once read The Tablet newspaper, followed the writings of Nkrumah, Amie Cesaire, Senghor, Samir Amin, Fannon, Olu Gordon, and Paul Kamra, or watched the [Read more]

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