The News Review:
- Peace keeping Pakistani troops leave for Sierra Leone.
- Freetown grants transit to 200 Liberian rebels from Guinea.
- Is Roman running away?
- SI.com – Soccer – Soccer America: Adu’s options – Thursday…
- [ENS] Liberia struggles toward an uncertain future
- Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
Peace keeping Pakistani troops leave for Sierra Leone.
Free with registration – PPI – Pakistan Press International – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 25, 2003
LAHORE, Aug 25: Another batch of peace-keeping troops of Pakistani Contingent left here from the Allama Iqbal International Airport Monday on a UN chartered aircraft as part of the relief – rotation programme under the United nations Mission in Sierra Leone, (UNAMSIL). Pakistan is presently contributing about 4,000 troops.
Freetown grants transit to 200 Liberian rebels from Guinea.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 25, 2003
Freetown grants transit to 200 Liberian rebels from Guinea. (25-SEP-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.
Is Roman running away?
BBC News – Sep 25, 2003
The Reuben brothers, Indian-born traders who built a huge metals empire in Russia during the 1990s, have transferred almost all of that wealth into the London property market, and are reported to be running the slide-rule over a few big-name UK corporations. Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group encompasses oil-trading operations in Switzerland and Gibraltar, and his firm recently locked itself into an alliance with Britain’s BP. Even the patriotic Mr Deripaska has sniffed around deals – with mixed success – as far afield as Sierra Leone, Australia, Guinea, Romania and China. There has even been talk that an as-yet anonymous Russian billionaire has been stalking Manchester United, a far bigger catch than the relatively modest Chelsea. Now that would be a deal worth gossiping about.
SI.com – Soccer – Soccer America: Adu’s options – Thursday…
SI.com – Sep 25, 2003
(Not coincidentally, those are the teams that beat the U. and to some extent shackled the 14-year-old phenom, who was hobbled by an ankle injury entering the competition and suffered some severe hits in the second U. group game against Sierra Leone.
[ENS] Liberia struggles toward an uncertain future
Worldwide Faith News – Worldwide Faith News (press release) – Sep 25, 2003
"New fighting is reported along the border between Liberia and Guineabetween rebels and government forces and the UN agency is trying totransfer the new refugees to safety further inland. It is alsocoordinating assistance with partners on the ground to set up mobileclinics, distribute some food, and install water and sanitation in thereception areas. This year alone some 86,000 new Liberian refugees havefled to neighboring Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ghana,bringing to 310,000 the number of Liberians in exile in the region,according to UNHCR. An estimated 250,000 people have been killed in Liberia’s on-and-offcivil war that began in 1989 when Charles Taylor initiated an armeduprising from Ivory Coast against President Samuel Doe who had earlierseized power in a military coup. Truth and reconciliation commission?Children as young as nine were forced to take part in the combat andBryant said that a crucial part in the healing process for his countrywould be to establish institutions for child soldiers where "these kidscan be detoxified and de-traumatized. " He is also supporting calls for atruth and reconciliation commission in Liberia similar to the one inSouth Africa that examined gross human rights violations during theapartheid era. He said that such a commission would be better than a warcrimes tribunal.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Sep 25, 2003
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A state agency should not have reclassified 762 acres of Central Oahu farmland for urban use without a formal environmental review of its potential effects, a state judge has ruled. The commission approved the pineapple fields for urban use in June 2002, following 10 months of hearings at which some Oahu residents questioned the Koa Ridge project’s potential impacts on groundwater supply and crowding of schools and roadways… The commission approved the pineapple fields for urban use in June 2002, following 10 months of hearings at which some Oahu residents questioned the Koa Ridge project’s potential impacts on groundwater supply and crowding of schools and roadways. The Sierra Club hailed the ruling Tuesday by Circuit Judge Elizabeth Hifo as a “major victory” in its campaign to slow the conversion of agricultural land to housing and commercial uses. The organization had appealed the commission’s ruling to Circuit Court. “We only have one chance at ensuring smart growth on the remaining farmlands in Central Oahu. Once they are developed, they are gone forever,” said Jeff Mikulina, state Sierra Club director. “This is going to give us time to breathe and question whether there is financial and community support for the project.