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Sierra Leoneans head to the polls to elect a president and parliament. Incumbent president Julius Maada Bio is running for a second term in office.
2023-06-24

Janusz Waluś, the convicted assassin of South African anti-apartheid politician Chris Hani, is released on parole.
2022-12-7

Nine people are killed and eight others are reported missing after flash flooding hits a church in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2022-12-4

Washington, D.C. confirms its first cases of the 501.V2 variant from South Africa and the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2.
2021-02-11

Standard & Poor's downgrades South Africa's long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating from 'BBB+' to 'BBB' and the long-term local currency rating from 'A' to 'A-'.
2012-10-12

The Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague delivers its verdict in the trial of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor on charges of arming Sierra Leone's rebels in return for "blood diamonds" in the 1990s. He is convicted on charges related to aiding and abetting war crimes but acquitted of charges of ordering them.
2012-04-26

Jeremy Ractliffe, former head of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, admits he kept possible blood diamonds to protect the reputations of Mandela, Naomi Campbell and the fund but that he gave them to South African police and is willing to testify at Charles Taylor's trial.
2010-08-6

The Special Court for Sierra Leone, sitting in The Hague, rules that model Naomi Campbell can be called to testify against former President of Liberia Charles Taylor in relation to her blood diamond.
2010-06-30

The first African edition of the association football tournament begins in South Africa.
2010-06-11

Prosecutors of the Special Court for Sierra Leone request United Nations judges to force supermodel Naomi Campbell to testify over allegations that she received a blood diamond from the former President of Liberia Charles Taylor.
2010-05-21