The News Review:

- UN REFUGEE CHIEF SURVEYS W. AFRICA PLANS
- SLPP Broom to Sweep Kambia Clean.
- THEATER GUIDE
- Guinea’s PM gives up after two months
- Daily Times – Site Edition

UN REFUGEE CHIEF SURVEYS W. AFRICA PLANS
highbeam.com – Apr 30, 2004
High Commissioner for Refugees was to visit a camp for ex-combatants near the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown, before going to Conakry, Guinea, to visit camps for about 150,000 refugees from Sierra Leone. Already about 225,000 Sierra Leoneans have returned home since 2000. The United Nations is preparing to shut down the camps. Lubbers is scheduled to visit Liberia.

SLPP Broom to Sweep Kambia Clean.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 30, 2004
SLPP Broom to Sweep Kambia Clean. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (April, 2004). Sama Banya has vowed that his party was going to capture all votes in the Kambia District.

THEATER GUIDE
New York Times – Apr 30, 2004
Their once-fine gowns are tattered now. As searchlights scan the rubble, gunshots, sirens, bird cries and splashing water are heard; Alfred Preisser’s adaptation, visceral yet taut, holds fast to these ancient cruelties while being entirely of our time. The Trojan War is the frame, but the script includes the testimony of women who have survived today’s wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia and Iraq. The deeds of war are more explicit in modern-day accounts. Houses are torched. Villagers are beaten and shot.

Guinea’s PM gives up after two months
Independent Online – Apr 30, 2004
We had been expecting this resignation,” said Mamadou Ba, a spokesperson for the main alliance of opposition parties. Guinea holds one third of the world’s known reserves of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminium. It has long been seen as a bulwark against turmoil in neighbours Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast. Human rights groups say its stability has come at a high cost in terms of restrictions on personal freedoms. Conte, who says he was born around 1934, is a diabetic chain-smoker who underwent three weeks of medical treatment in Morocco at the end of 2002. His health has prompted worries that instability may engulf Guinea and endanger fragile regional stability whenever his rule comes to an end.

Daily Times – Site Edition
Daily Times – Apr 30, 2004
A top official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Dennis McNamara, said the agency expected the new government to pay renewed attention to resolve the problem of the displaced. McNamara, the UNHCRs Inspector General, warned that donors could not be expected indefinitely to fund the displaced in Sri Lanka where the refugee problem is one of the worlds largest and most protracted. International support is still there, but competition is getting greater and there is a demand for shifting resources and personnel to countries like Sudan, Afghanistan, Burundi and Sierra Leone, he told reporters after a two-week assessment on the island.