The News Review:
- Nigeria: Army chief meets troops in Sierra Leone.
- Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju meets Sierra Leone foreign minister.
- UN Sends Food to Liberia; Peacekeepers Coming
- Security Council authorizes multinational force to support ceasefire…
- Online NewsHour: Liberia’s Uneasy Peace | What is ECOWAS? | PBS
Nigeria: Army chief meets troops in Sierra Leone.
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Nigeria: Army chief meets troops in Sierra Leone. (04-AUG-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire. And the vanguard Nigerian battalion from Sierra Leone has assur.
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Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju meets Sierra Leone foreign minister.
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Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju meets Sierra Leone foreign minister. (04-AUG-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.
UN Sends Food to Liberia; Peacekeepers Coming
Arab News – Aug 4, 2003
A half-ton of high-energy biscuits arrived in Monrovia on Saturday from neighboring Sierra Leone, the World Food Program said yesterday. It’s part of a 12-ton consignment that is slated to feed 100,000 hungry Liberians in the city, at hospitals and in camps. Separately, the Save the Children aid group said it planned to fly a jet loaded with 30 tons of emergency supplies to Liberia later Sunday. “It is an expensive operation, but we have no choice,” Manuel Aranda da Silva, WFP’s West African regional director, said of the airlift operations. “People are crying out for food and this is the only way we can get aid into the city at the moment.
Security Council authorizes multinational force to support ceasefire…
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M2 PRESSWIRE-4 August 2003-UN: Security Council authorizes multinational force to support ceasefire in Liberia; Resolution 1497 (2003) adopted by 12-0-3 (France, Germany, Mexico); Also declares readiness to deploy UN Peacekeeping Force by 1 October(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08012003 Deeply concerned over the deteriorating situation in Liberia and consequent tragic loss of countless innocent lives, the Security Council this evening authorized a Multinational Force to support implementation of the 17 June ceasefire agreement there using “all necessary measures”, and declared its readiness to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping force by 1 October to assist in reaching a comprehensive peace agreement. Adopting resolution 1497 (2003) in a vote of 12 in favour to none against, with three abstaining (France, Germany, Mexico), and acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the Council also authorized the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), to extend logistical support for up to 30 days to the forward Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) elements of the Multinational Force. The Multinational Force’s mandate will include maintaining security in the period after departure of the current President Charles Taylor, and the installation of a successor authority, securing the environment for delivery of humanitarian assistance, establishing conditions for initial stages of disarmament and demobilization, and preparing for the longer term United Nations stabilization force to relieve it. The Council requested the Secretary-General to submit recommendations for the size, structure and mandate of the Force preferably by 15 August. Stressing that the Force’s expenses would be borne by the participating Member States and other voluntary contributions, the Council called on Member States to contribute personnel, equipment, and other resources. By the terms of the resolution, which was submitted by the United States, the Council also decided under operative paragraph 7 that current or former officials or personnel from a contributing State which was not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) would be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of that contributing State for all alleged acts or omissions arising out of, or related to, the Multinational Force or the United Nations stabilization force.
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Online NewsHour: Liberia’s Uneasy Peace | What is ECOWAS? | PBS
NewsHour – Aug 4, 2003
The
Stability Challenge
Although
ECOWAS has championed economic efforts, civil wars in Sierra Leone,
Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire and religious violence and political
instability in Nigeria have hindered progress and presented major
questions not addressed by the creators of ECOWAS. ECOWAS
has headed peacekeeping missions to several of its member states,
with mixed results. In Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire, initial
deployments were later bolstered and often taken over by peacekeeping
troops from those nation’s former colonial powers, England and
France respectively. Although ECOMOG helped end serious violence,
both human rights groups and the United Nations accused the soldiers
of summary executions and other human rights abuses. Now
ECOMIL, the military wing of ECOWAS, has deployed troops to end
the violence in Liberia… The
Stability Challenge
Although
ECOWAS has championed economic efforts, civil wars in Sierra Leone,
Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire and religious violence and political
instability in Nigeria have hindered progress and presented major
questions not addressed by the creators of ECOWAS. ECOWAS
has headed peacekeeping missions to several of its member states,
with mixed results. In Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire, initial
deployments were later bolstered and often taken over by peacekeeping
troops from those nation’s former colonial powers, England and
France respectively. Although ECOMOG helped end serious violence,
both human rights groups and the United Nations accused the soldiers
of summary executions and other human rights abuses. Now
ECOMIL, the military wing of ECOWAS, has deployed troops to end
the violence in Liberia.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
[...] Dispatch Online – Your premier Eastern Cape news siteDispatch Online – Jan 27, 2005As solo artists the twosome is strictly on the rap, but since last year they’ve collaborated on Xhosa classics, revised to tell tales of modern society. For those who understood the language, the performance was spiritual and left a lot of people proud of these young cultural ambassadors. Later in the evening Phura took over as a poet with the same mission – reinstating the spirit of ubuntu. The occasion was also graced by surprise visitors from Buffalo Flats. Guitarist and songwriter Ayaniah brought along three friends, Irene van der Merwe and Cizario Roberts of Pop Idols, and an unknown female vocalist friend. The loosely-arranged group performed an R&B version of Tupac Shakur’s Do For Love. They owned the song from the first to the last note.Related: Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju meets Sierra Leone foreign minister. [...]
October 15th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
[...] Nigeria: Print Friendly George AgbaAllAfrica.com – Apr 6, 2008It is possible that a person could be known as an aviator, but not with the knowledge and ability of piloting the affairs of a conglomerated aviation outfit such as (FAAN)". The turnover of managing directors in FAAN at a ratio of one in six month or at most, another official said, is a proof that there is a deliberate attempt by this cabal to deliberately mismanage the industry because "most of the MD’s are not just competent enough to head a section in a ministry or in a well organised airline as their appointments are based on personal interest". He also revealed that the blank cheque which the Nigerian aviation authority signed and sent to virgin Nigeria to enable them operate exclusively from the international terminal of the MMIA was not issued under duress. "Those behind it the same bureaucratically driven public officers who enticed the unsuspecting political officer holders (ministers) who are non-professionals into assenting to such initiative. "As soon as it backfired, they resorted to their normal way of dodging responsibility by passing the blame to one another, a lesson Mr. Felix Hyat should have learnt earlier rather than appologising to Nigerians after misinforming them on the missing aircraft. It all boils down to the incompetent public officers working in tandem with the mafias constituting the aviation cable"… It all boils down to the incompetent public officers working in tandem with the mafias constituting the aviation cable". A top officials with FAAN from the northern part of the country said when the former aviation minister, Isa Iguda now governor of Bauchi state could no longer contain such the alarming rate of criminality and indiscipline in the nation’s airports, he employed the services of a consultancy firm which came up with stunning revelations and solutions. "He secured the president’s approval to sanitize the aviation industry. But as soon as his request was granted by former president Obasanjo to form a tacks force to embark on the cleansing of the industry, the mafia cabal plotted for his removal with a flimsy excuse that heards of cattles were found crossing the Port Harcourt airport run way when Air France was about landing". He further noted that Borishade became Iguda’s successor as minister despite oppositions from prominent Nigerians and the senate "as Obasanjo stood his ground in total defiance to the yearnings of Nigerians", adding that "this Marked the beginning of serial devastating blood shed which claimed the lives of Nigerians like the late sultan of Sokoto, two sitting senators and a governor". Another staff of the aviation security and safety in FAAN recalled that with the emergence of Fani Kayode as the minister of aviation, this mafia labal conspired to hatch a plan which led to the sack of the then director of aviation security and safety, captain Balarabe Usman, who professor Borishade was honest enough to describe as a seasoned professional. "He was a very uncompromising officer when it came to security and safety at the nation’s airports.Related: Nigeria: Army chief meets troops in Sierra Leone. [...]