All news on the topic: Sierra Leone

The council of London’s Southwark borough has repossessed a subsidized flat from Fatima Bio, Sierra Leone’s first lady, following a 12-month investigation launched after OCCRP and The Times last year revealed she had kept her tenancy at the property even after moving to the presidential palace in her home country.

Since Julius Maada Bio assumed the presidency of Sierra Leone in April 2018, his wife, Fatima Bio, and her close relatives have acquired luxury properties in Gambia.

The Netherlands has formally requested the extradition of convicted drug criminal Jos Leijdekkers, a notorious figure in international drug trafficking.

Sources have located Johannes Leijdekkers in the West African country since at least December 2022.

Jos Leijdekkers, reportedly the son-in-law of African country’s president, was sentenced to 24 years in prison

Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau have authorized a Swiss-based civil society organization to facilitate chemical testing of a drug that is wreaking havoc in West Africa and has prompted the president of Sierra Leone to declare a national emergency.

Beny Steinmetz’s company obtained iron ore deposits worth billions thanks to bribes paid to the wife of a West African president.

Beny Steinmetz likes to do things his own way.

Three-year-old Emu, from Sierra Leone in West Africa, was born with a lump on her neck which grew over time - and her mum Yei was scared the tumour would kill the little girl