The News Review:

- … shots.(Feature Story)(soccer players from the Sierra Leone…
- EU/SIERRA LEONE: EURO 10 MILLION GRANTED FOR REFUGEES.(Brief Article)
- Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences….
- Breaking Barriers Facing Women Entrepreneurs.
- Global Santas touch lives in developing and war-scarred lands.

… shots.(Feature Story)(soccer players from the Sierra Leone…
Free with registration – Weekly Reader, Senior Edition – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 28, 2003
Fornah and Kamara are not your typical soccer players. They can’t bend the shot as David Beckham does, nor can they rush the goal with the speed of Mia Hamm.

EU/SIERRA LEONE: EURO 10 MILLION GRANTED FOR REFUGEES.(Brief Article)
Free with registration – European Report – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 29, 2003
(Brief Article) –> COPYRIGHT 2003 Europe Information Service The European Commission has approved a Euro 10 million grant for a rehabilitation and resettlement project for refugees in the West African state of Sierra Leone. The aim of the grant is to rehabilitate social infrastructure (schools and clinics) and include a component of consolidation, which aims predominantly at.

Lassa fever: epidemiology, clinical features, and social consequences….
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Found predominantly in west Africa, (1) it has the potential to cause tens of thousands of deaths. Even after recovery, the virus remains in body fluids, including semen. (1) The years of civil unrest in Sierra Leone (1991-2002) halted the investigation (through international collaboration) of Lassa fever at a specialist unit in Kenema. Increasing international travel and the possibility of use of the Lassa virus as a biological weapon escalate the potential for harm beyond the local level. Access to the country is improving, so renewed efforts to understand it are feasible. Method of review The information presented comes from a strategic document produced in 2002 for Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International, a London based non-governmental aid organisation which manages the Lassa unit in Kenema (www.

Breaking Barriers Facing Women Entrepreneurs.
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Florence Butegwa replied in the affirmative. Accordingly, as UNIFEM continues to champion the rights of women, the elimination of all forms of violence against women and mainstreaming of gender polices and programmes, Butegwa said her agency was well positioned to tackle emerging challenges facing women. “UNIFEM Anglophone West Africa include Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. But our head office is in Nigeria. Here, we monitor development in our areas of influence”, she said. Also, she said, the changing economic environment in the world, and in Africa, where armed conflicts, the transformation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) into the African Union (AU) and the adoption of New Partnerships for African Development (NEPAD) by African leaders as the central framework for partnerships with development partners, present opportunities and immense challenges for fulfilling UNIFEM’s mandate.

Global Santas touch lives in developing and war-scarred lands.
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 28, 2003
_ It’s a rare month. Paul and Joyce Chiles are not in Uzbekistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Iraq. The topic turns away from the horror and sadness they see i.