The News Review:
- FULL TIME: Congo 1-0 Sierra Leone
- Let Charles Taylor Pay for His Sins
- Top Judges’ Seminar On Environment Ends Today.
- Bantu refugees pass daily tests on life in USA
- In deep Sudan, a good companion is a blessing
FULL TIME: Congo 1-0 Sierra Leone
BBC News – Oct 12, 2003
1258: Ethiopia and Malawi kick off in Addis Ababa. 1300: An Ethiopian free-kick from outside the penalty area hits the Malawi post before rebounding to safety. 1300: Swaziland and Cape Verde kick off in Mbabane. 1315: Neither Zimbabwe nor Mauritania have settled in a game where both midfields are battling to determine supremacy. 1315: Gabon kick off against Burundi in Bujumbura. 1320: GOAL! Zimbabwe 1-0 MauritaniaAdam Ndlovu opens the scoring after heading home brother Peter’s perfect left-wing cross.
Let Charles Taylor Pay for His Sins
This Day – This Day (subscription) – Oct 12, 2003
The Government of Nigeria neglects its responsibilies for the promotion of the Special Court if at the same time it undermines its work by offering safe haven to persons indicted by offering safe haven to persons indicted by it. The Government of Nigeria is also bound by its obligations under the Convention against Torture and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court which it both ratified in 2001. Experience in Sierra Leone shows that there can be no durable peace unless those who have committed serious human rights violations are brought to justice. Thus the Special Court is playing a major role in contributing towards justice for the victims of human rights abuses, reconciliation and sustained peace in Sierra Leone. Frustrating the efforts to end impunity will not be in the interests of peace in either Liberia or the West Amca region. I therefore urge you to immediately arrest President Taylor and to surrender him to the Special Court or to open an investigation with the view to determining whether to open criminal or extradition proceedings in Nigerian courts. Immunity from prosecution for President Taylor would be a severe offence against the international law and the Special Court.
Top Judges’ Seminar On Environment Ends Today.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 11, 2003
–> COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (From The Nation (Kenya) – AAGM) Byline: Mugumo Munene A two-day environmental symposium for senior judges from across Africa closes at a Nairobi hotel today. The workshop, hosted by United Nations Environmental Programme, attracted participants from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, South Africa, and Egypt. They included seven chief justices. In his opening remarks, Chief Justice Evan Gicheru said the judiciary was an integral and crucial partner in sustainable development. “In an effort to support development,.
Bantu refugees pass daily tests on life in USA
USA Today – Oct 12, 2003
She has even gotten used to a chair. Church volunteers noticed that when they would visit the family’s three-bedroom apartment, Arbai would stand or squat on the floor, African style. Then, one day, a woman who had immigrated from Sierra Leone visited and sat down in a chair at the dining room table. Arbai immediately pulled up a chair of her own. Acclimating well The family has obtained and mastered a television, a VCR, a radio and an electric coffee maker. They also asked for and received a microwave (Muya called it “the stove that heats everything very fast”) and a vacuum (“it’s hard to sweep the carpet,” Arbai told a volunteer). Since their arrival, the family has been joined by several others, including those of Muya’s brother and sister.
In deep Sudan, a good companion is a blessing
Telegraph.co.uk – Oct 11, 2003
We turned him back and reached base without a lot in the tank. Furious at missing a day’s programme, Miss Crawford cowed the plane’s owner into loaning us a giant helicopter crewed by six men from Ukraine. We missed none of our appointments on the Liberia-Sierra Leone frontier. This time she came up with a military plane, an AN28. “What’s more,” she said, on her return, “the colonel says he reads The Daily Telegraph and will take us with him in his helicopter to the airfield. ” So it came about. With a stop for refuelling, we were back in Khartoum before nightfall.