The News Review:

- Feature Article of Thursday, 26 February 2004
- … Silent Film Fest on February 28th Benefits Medical Mission…
- 100 M. Euros for Freetown/Bo, Masiaka Roads.

Feature Article of Thursday, 26 February 2004
ghanaweb.com – Feb 26, 2004
Both are former British colonies. One has collapsed making its security managed by an international force, the other was saved by the grace of its wits but its northern part over the past ten years has seen community bloodbath. Please, welcome to Sierra Leone and Ghana, the two countries in the much troubled West Africa where national reconciliation commissions are on-going to sooth the souls of many of those troubled by years of idiocy and help keep the spirit of the nation intact after years of gruesome miseries. What emanates from the two countries truth and reconciliation platforms are years of treachery, evil, lies, deceit, tribalism, mans inhumanity to man and a people who havent learn a bit from their past. For the past two weeks, the Ghana National Reconciliation Commission (NRC), which aim to patch up tattered souls and bodies those wounded over the years in mainly military juntas, has turned into politics of sorrow to use a term from Canadian Davorka Ljubisics new book A Politics of Sorrow: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia (Black Rose Book, Montreal, 2003). The forum for healing has become the forum of new primitivism, a forum for defensive postures and politics of blame and counter-blame instead of a forum for civility, healing and maturation. Ex-President Jerry Rawlings, a man with clearly weak cognitive powers, is either lying about his not having the video tapes purported to contain the interrogations and killings of some of those killed during his oppressive years or demonstrating total absentmindedness…
The Daily Guide is doing Mr. Pokus dirty work for him presumably under his direction. In Sierra Leone, which before it fell to the newprimitives pride itself as the most civilized in West Africa (the first university in West Africa, Fourah Bay College, was founded there), the heated national debate is increasingly revealing, like Ghana, how a culture of treachery, deceit, blackmail, stupidity and mindlessness fertilized the grounds for the decade long bloody Revolutionary United Front (RUF) insurgency. Alieu Iscandri in the Freetown-based Concord Times, And the great blame game continuesThe APC has been out of power for about 14 years now, after a coup orchestrated by the SLPP, funded by the SLPP, supported both morally and financially by the SLPP. It sort of smack of gross hypocrisy that 14 years later the SLPP is still blaming the APC for mismanagement of Sierra Leone when they and their progenies the NPRC have had the past 14 years to create Nirvana in Sierra LeoneNow lets talk about Foday Sankoh and his band of merry warriors. It is a fact that most of the members of the present SLPP government supported the RUF and as a matter of fact even the President has admitted to that, quite noble of him, considering the spirit of reconciliation.

… Silent Film Fest on February 28th Benefits Medical Mission…
PR Web – PR Web (press release) – Feb 26, 2004
For the past 16 years, the Lighthouse Medical Mission Teams have traveled to some of the most severely war-torn regions of the world to administer free medical care and medications to those in dire need. The teams also work with local physicians in the region to foster and improve practices for basic medical care. Past years teams have traveled to Nicaragua, Guatemala, The Gambia and Sierra Leone. Traveling again to Sierra Leone in March and April 2004, all members (doctors, nurses and others) of these medical teams donate their time and pay for their own transportation, travel, meals and lodging. Therefore, all funds raised are used to underwrite the costs of transporting and purchasing much needed medications, medical supplies and equipment. Note: If you are unable to attend, but wish to contribute, please send your tax-deductible donation to: Africa 2004 Lighthouse Medical Mission Teams2216 Santa Monica Blvd. Suite 204Santa Monica, CA 90404.

100 M. Euros for Freetown/Bo, Masiaka Roads.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 26, 2004
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