The News Review:
- Israelis become partners in Sierra Leone diamond mine.(Facets)
- Sierra Leone: plain-faced theft.(Letters)
- American medics offer Sierra Leoneans free eye operation.
- Sharewatch: African Diamonds is still a gem of an investment
- PI Focus: US sabotages international court at its own peril
Israelis become partners in Sierra Leone diamond mine.(Facets)
Free with registration – Israel Diamonds – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 1, 2004
(Facets) –> COPYRIGHT 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US) Two Israelis, neither of whom reportedly had any involvement in the diamond sector, have become partners in a diamond mine in Sierra Leone. While neither would reveal the value of their purchase, sources said that annual production would equal millions of U. According to Israel’s Ma’ariv daily, Reuven.
Sierra Leone: plain-faced theft.(Letters)
Free with registration – New African – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 1, 2004
(Letters) –> COPYRIGHT 2004 IC Publications Ltd. I shall begin by thanking the New African team for the wonderful work they are doing in creating awareness and awakening the dormant spirit of the African people both at home and abroad. I was shocked when I saw on Italian TV recently a documentary on Sierra Leone’s Diamond.
American medics offer Sierra Leoneans free eye operation.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 1, 2004
American medics offer Sierra Leoneans free eye operation. (01-FEB-04) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.
Sharewatch: African Diamonds is still a gem of an investment
Times Online – Feb 1, 2004
Orapa is the world’s second biggest diamond mine and produces top grade stones. Kalahari, which will own 60% of the joint venture, also has an exclusive deal to sell all its diamonds to BHP. In Sierra Leone, meanwhile, trial mining will begin at a small licence in Koidu next month. It is also carrying out advanced tests at a bigger mine in the area to establish if its exploration licence is commercially viable. Diamonds have been located, it’s just a matter of deciding if they are worth prospecting. If the answer is yes the stock could prove to be a gem.
PI Focus: US sabotages international court at its own peril
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Feb 1, 2004
The American people can be proud of our contributions to international justice over the past decade, particularly U. support for the international criminal tribunals for the Balkans and Rwanda and the “hybrid” courts (with international and domestic judges, prosecutors and defense counsel) in Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone and soon in Cambodia. That support has been more problematic under the Bush administration, which greatly fears exposure of high government or military officials to judicial accountability and wants to close down international tribunals as quickly as possible. The war on terror has heightened those concerns as we deploy high-tech military firepower and thousands of soldiers in controversial operations overseas. The White House has reversed America’s once cautious support for the permanent International Criminal Court into a policy of destructive disengagement grounded in fear. The Bush team nullified Clinton’s authorized signature to the treaty setting up the court.