The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: Security and Governance
- Lurd Rebels Barred From Entering Sierra Leone.
- UN chief names new mission commander in Sierra Leone.
- Africa urged to revise blind policy
- For the good of it

Sierra Leone: Security and Governance
Reuters AlertNet – Oct 9, 2003
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Lurd Rebels Barred From Entering Sierra Leone.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 9, 2003
Lurd Rebels Barred From Entering Sierra Leone. (09-OCT-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.

UN chief names new mission commander in Sierra Leone.
highbeam.com – Oct 9, 2003
find Xinhua News Agency articles. UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9, 2003 (Xinhua via COMTEX) UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Thursday Sajjad Ak.

Africa urged to revise blind policy
BBC News – Oct 9, 2003
Many African societies shun their blind as too much of a burden, with some left to perish or else survive on minimal help. But the prevalence of blindness-causing diseases and problems in the continent has led to a call in a change in such treatment. “Sight issues are a big problem in Sierra Leone, as well as in the rest of the West Africa region,” Dennis Williams of Sierra Leone’s Sightsavers International told BBC World Service’s Africa Live! programme. “Because of the inability of people to work with blind people, blind people are treated very badly and left to sit behind their houses while other people do their normal day’s work. “Blind people are considered not capable of earning an income, not contributing to their communities, their homes, their families, their society,” he said. ‘Left to perish’Mr Williams added that the problems for blind people in Sierra Leone had been exacerbated by the decade-long civil war in the country…
“Because of the inability of people to work with blind people, blind people are treated very badly and left to sit behind their houses while other people do their normal day’s work. “Blind people are considered not capable of earning an income, not contributing to their communities, their homes, their families, their society,” he said. ‘Left to perish’Mr Williams added that the problems for blind people in Sierra Leone had been exacerbated by the decade-long civil war in the country.

For the good of it
Al-Ahram Weekly – Oct 9, 2003
Her youngest, David, is the "conventional one" she chuckles. "He is married and has kids. " Harrell-Bond’s children went to school in Sierra Leone. Her daughter Deborah was enrolled in Annie Walsh, the first girls school in West Africa. Harrell-Bond is one of the world’s most influential "refugee studies" gurus lobbying on behalf of refugees. In 1980 the Chadian warlord and former military strongman Hissiene Habre was marching into Chad and panic-stricken people were fleeing the country. In 1981 in Maiduguri, across the border in Nigeria, Harrell-Bond examined the refugee situation which led her to new discoveries…
"I’m not paying to leave Liberia," she told the border guards. Modern Marriage in Sierra Leone (1975), another of Harrell- Bond’s works, is widely considered to be an important anthropological study. Her other publications include Community Leadership and the Transformation of Freetown (1801-1976), first published in 1978. Essentially a study of migration to Freetown, ethnicity, clan and extended family networks, it was based on her 1970 doctoral thesis on Sierra Leone. "It was when I was reading the proofs of the book that I decided the only Africans that will read this book would be academics. It would be too expensive for ordinary Sierra Leoneans to buy.