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- Letters home: Sierra Leone
- Bodies of peacekeepers due by Dec 31
- Anyaoku Cautions FG Over Charles Taylor.
- Final Bows.(deaths of important international figures in 2003)(Obituar…
Letters home: Sierra Leone
BBC News – Dec 29, 2003
2003 saw peace continue to spread throughout Sierra Leone as the troubled African nation got used to life without fighting under President Ahmad Kabbah. This is a letter from 18-year-old Chernor Bah, from Freetown.
Bodies of peacekeepers due by Dec 31
Daily Star – The Daily Star – Dec 29, 2003
December 29, 2003 Front Page Bodies of peacekeepers due by Dec 31Staff CorrespondentThe bodies of 15 Bangladesh Army officers, killed in Thursday’s air crash in the West African country of Benin, will be flown back home by Wednesday. A nine-member army team from Sierra Leone, Benin’s strife-torn neighbouring country, has identified the dead and wrapping up other formalities that stemmed from the largest casualties in a single accident in Bangladesh army since independence. The army headquarters in Dhaka hopes the task would be complete by today. The officers — ranking from captain to lieutenant colonel — were deployed to Sierra Leone and another strife-riven country, Liberia, on United Nations peacekeeping missions. The 15 peacekeepers were among the 119 people killed in the crash that came after the plane botched its takeoff, clipping a building before tumbling nose down into the nearby Atlantic Ocean. According to international law, the postmortem will be carried out in Benin, Lieutenant Colonel Nazrul Islam, director of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said yesterday, adding: “If postmortem facilities are available there, the bodies will be brought straight back to Dhaka.
Anyaoku Cautions FG Over Charles Taylor.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 29, 2003
–> COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (From Vanguard (Nigeria) – AAGM) Byline: Austin Ogwuda FORMER Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku has advised the Federal Government to resist temptation from the United States to release former Liberian leader. Fielding questions from reporters in Asaba on Boxing Day, Anyaoku, now Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on Foreign Relations noted that Nigeria’s magnanimity in granting former Liberian leader an asylum was a wise decision because according to him the civil war in Liberia could have continued unabated while the conflicts in the neighbouring countries like Guinea, Sierra-Leone could have equally.
Final Bows.(deaths of important international figures in 2003)(Obituar…
Free with registration – Newsweek International – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 29, 2003
But he was also a shrewd businessman, building Fiat into the country’s largest private employer and expanding its holdings to include everything from chemicals to candy bars. FODAY SANKOH, 65 In a region known for its brutal violence, Sankoh raised the bar just a little bit higher. In 1991 he ignited a decadelong civil war in his native Sierra Leone. Although conceived as an idealistic movement aiming to topple the country’s corrupt political powers, Sankoh’s Revolutionary United Front soon became rich on diamonds.