The News Review:

- Agencies press Liberia’s rebels to let food aid flow
- Monetary Union Not the Best.
- Probe Liberia war crimes, says top UN man
- Miss Lou is Jamaica!
- Indian wins international journalism award
- Powell: US Will Not be Defeated in Terror War
- Somalia: The wrangling continues unabated.

Agencies press Liberia’s rebels to let food aid flow
USA Today – Aug 8, 2003
Still wet from the trip and holding a change of clothes in a plastic bag, Yealu marveled at the bustling street lined with food stalls, saying: “People free all around. ”
Taylor has insisted that a U. -Sierra Leone court drop a war crimes indictment against him for involvement in a vicious civil war in Sierra Leone — a demand prosecutors show no sign of meeting. The International Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontieres used the break in fighting in Monrovia to cross the front lines for the first time Friday since at least July 19, when rebels initiated their siege. Aid workers took medical supply kits to makeshift hospitals in rebel territory, where war wounded, cholera victims and others have been without antibiotics or painkillers.
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Monetary Union Not the Best.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 8, 2003
(From Public Agenda (Ghana) – AAGM) Byline: Amos Safo The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Report 2002 released last week has stated that Ghana will be worse off in a West African monetary zone. The Gambia, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia have plan to launch a single currency by 2005. Quoting a recent study by (Masson and Patillo 2001) on.
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Probe Liberia war crimes, says top UN man
Independent Online – Aug 8, 2003
‘Torture has been widespread’”It is urgent to investigate and assess human rights and humanitarian law violations and abuses perpetrated by all parties to the Liberian conflict,” it added. International war crimes courts were set up for ex-Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda and an international-backed tribunal is prosecuting crimes committed during the recent civil war in Sierra Leone. The report cited “indiscriminate mortar shellings of known civilian safe havens and shelters in Monrovia” during the surge in fighting between President Charles Taylor’s government and a rebel group, the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) in July. “Torture has been widespread with the number of victims running into the thousands,” while hundreds of women and girls had been raped or subjected to sexual violence, it said. “The widespread nature of these crimes indicates that rape has been used as a weapon of war,” the report added. It also listed attempts to deny civilians access to food, water and relief.

Miss Lou is Jamaica!
Jamaica Gleaner – Aug 8, 2003
Arthur Brown, former Governor of the Bank of Jamaica and former Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, I performed Miss Lou’s “Gay Paree” to an international audience and the francophone Africans understood and were very appreciative of the poem. Of course, natives of Antigua and Sierra Leone share the same dialect with us Jamaicans. Miss Lou is to me a historian, linguist, entertainer and comedian. She will always be for me, and I am sure for many other Jamaicans, an artistic inspiration. I often feel nostalgia for Jamaica and performing Miss Lou’s work takes me home. For me, Miss Lou is Jamaica!I am, etc.

Indian wins international journalism award
Times of India – Aug 8, 2003
The
winners will be honoured at a ceremony here on October 28 and each will get
$10,000. An international panel of judges each year selects a freelance
journalist of any nationality covering international news, and a local reporter
in a developing country or nation in transition. Underwritten by the
Kurt Schork Memorial Fund and Reuters and administered by the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism, the prizes were created to honour Kurt
Schork, an American freelance journalist, who was killed in a military ambush
while on assignment for Reuters on May 24, 2000, in Sierra Leone. He was best
known for his hard-hitting reports from Bosnia during the siege of Sarajevo. He
was also known for his appreciation of and respect for the local journalists who
worked beside him. Four other entries received honourable mention. They include Andrew Meldrum, freelance journalist for his reporting from
Zimbabwe for the

Guardian

under
extremely adverse conditions, including his arrest and trial, provided readers
with “first class, balanced, cutting edge coverage” on such subjects as
suppression of the opposition.

Powell: US Will Not be Defeated in Terror War
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Aug 8, 2003
“On Liberia, Powell said the Bush administrationexpects Liberian President Charles Taylor to leave thecountry. Taylor leaves Liberia, as we expect him todo in the very near future, and is given asylum in Nigeria,this does not remove the indictment” against him by theUnited Nations tribunal for Sierra Leone, Powell said. “Itthen becomes a matter between Mr. Taylor” and the tribunal,Powell said. “And we support the indictment. He certainlyhas allegations against him which I think clearly warranthim appearing before that tribunal.

Somalia: The wrangling continues unabated.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 8, 2003
With the exception of the regional umbrella organisation, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the rest of the international community it appears have abandoned Somalia. Although the European Union (EU) is covering hotel bills and other expenses for the participants of the talks in Kenya, there is no significant diplomatic involvement from Somalia’s former colonial powers Italy and Britain. This is in marked contrast to the active engagements that have taken place in Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo-Kinshasa or now in Liberia. MORE FRAGMENTATIONS The biggest obstacle to the peace process came after the interim president of the Transitional Government (TNG), Abdilkasim Salad Hassan stormed out of the talks last week, complaining that foreign countries were actively interfering in the Somali conflict. In particular, Hassan heavily criticised Ethiopia the same country he.