The News Review:
- Sierra Leone – The road to reconstruction: Chris Mullin lifts travel…
- Sierra Leone MP jailed for illegal possession of diamonds.
- LIBERIA: Main rebel group declares end of hostilities in Liberia
- Broken Promises To Liberia
- Bringing Sanity to Lagos.
Sierra Leone – The road to reconstruction: Chris Mullin lifts travel…
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Sierra Leone – The road to reconstruction: Chris Mullin lifts travel ban. (24-SEP-03) M2 Presswire.
Sierra Leone MP jailed for illegal possession of diamonds.
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Sierra Leone MP jailed for illegal possession of diamonds. (24-SEP-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.
LIBERIA: Main rebel group declares end of hostilities in Liberia
IRINnews.org – Sep 24, 2003
Conneh paid tribute to Guinea, which has supported LURD since the rebel group was founded in April 1999. It currently hosts an estimated 116,000 Liberian refugees. “We worked closely with Guinea and Sierra Leone to bring peace to this country. Guinea played a leading role to make sure peace is attained in Liberia,” Conneh said. Dressed in white and referring to himself as a “liberator”, Conneh said he had no regrets about launching the war, in which thousands have keen killed, raped and harassed and half a million have been displaced from their homes. The warlord was accompanied to Liberia by several prominent exiles, including, Cheaye Doe, the younger brother former Liberian president Samuel Doe. Doe was captured and killed by rebels in September 1990 in the early stages of the conflict that has devastated Liberia for the past 14 years.
Broken Promises To Liberia
hrw.org – Sep 24, 2003
peacekeeping force with an explicit mandate to protect civilians, and a mechanism for holding accountable those responsible for past atrocities. It should seek Charles Taylor's extradition from Nigeria, where he has taken refuge, to the Sierra Leone Special Court, which has indicted him for war crimes. Just like Saddam Hussein, Taylor needs to be apprehended and prosecuted, so that his people know he will never return or destabilize their country again. Nor is it too late to send those Marines back into Monrovia. Such a deployment would still save lives. It would still send a message the administration should be desperately eager to send: that America is willing to use its immense power not simply for narrow self-interest but for the benefit of others.
Bringing Sanity to Lagos.
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It is either war in Iraq or Iran or the Israeli-Palestine war, bomb explosion. Harma’s attack etc. And if the news is on Africa, it is either rebel group attack in Liberia or war in Sierra Leone or how Charles Taylor is faring in his newly found hideout. In the same vein in writing about a combustible cosmopolitan city like Lagos, where things are happening, the tendency is to focus on the negative or exaggerate them out of proportion forgetting that good things still happen in Lagos. My personal investigation reveals that many Lagosians are not as bad as depicted. At times some sociological factors or sheer human weaknesses or simply sheer ignorance could make a certain.