The News Review:

- Kabbah assures Sierra Leone’s foreign mining firms.
- Alumni Group Extends Dedication to College Beyond 4 Years
- Corpse of would-be pilgrim returned to Freetown.
- On the Dark Side Of Democracy

Kabbah assures Sierra Leone’s foreign mining firms.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 31, 2004
Kabbah assures Sierra Leone’s foreign mining firms. (31-JAN-04) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.

Alumni Group Extends Dedication to College Beyond 4 Years
W&M The Dog Street Journal – Jan 31, 2004
The only cost of the initiative would be the shipment of books. Although the book drive would take place during finals and would be staffed by alums, ARC would ideally like to join forces with the African Cultural Society or the Student Assembly. Maybarduk, who spent three years of his childhood in Sierra Leone, and Spencer, who is from the country, met upon these common grounds their freshman year at the College. Most of the current members of ARC are recent graduates (generally 2000 – 2002), many having gone on to work in non-governmental organizations, civil societies, and the public service sector. “As an alumni you feel you can say what you need to say and don’t feel repressed from it. You feel more liberty to speak your mind. At the same time you have to step back and remember you are not a student there.

Corpse of would-be pilgrim returned to Freetown.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 31, 2004
Corpse of would-be pilgrim returned to Freetown. (31-JAN-04) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.

On the Dark Side Of Democracy
New York Times – Jan 31, 2004
As she states the case in her recent book, ”World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability”(Doubleday, 2003): ”Markets concentrate wealth, often spectacular wealth, in the hands of the market-dominant minority, while democracy increases the political power of the impoverished majority. In these circumstances the pursuit of free market democracy becomes an engine of potentially catastrophic ethnonationalism. ” And this, she adds, is precisely what is happening today in Indonesia, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Russia and the Middle East. ” With its volatile mix of Sunnis (the elite Muslim minority favored by Saddam Hussein), Shiites (the generally poorer Muslim majority) and Kurds, Iraq could soon join the list, Ms. ”It’s a big mess,” she said. ”You have a 60 percent Shiite majority that has long been oppressed and has just every reason to take back the country and re-establish its identity.