The News Review:

- Liberia’s Taylor snubs court
- Successful repatriation of Sierra Leoneans.
- GUINEA: Refugee influx adds fuel to AIDS crisis in southeast Guinea
- Ghanaian High Commissioner Visits Citizen Radio.

Liberia’s Taylor snubs court
Independent Online – Jul 26, 2004
Taylor, Obasanjo, Nigeria’s justice minister and three government agencies have been named as respondents in the suit. All but Taylor were represented. In 1999 Egbuna and Anyaele were businessmen working in wartorn Sierra Leone. They were caught by rebel fighters and, like thousands of local civilians, they were tortured and maimed. Anyaele’s arms were severed above the elbow, while Egbuna’s hands were partially cut off and left permanently useless. Judge Stephen Adah adjourned the case to September 15 to consider preliminary objections raised by other parties in the case who would challenge the plaintiffs’ right to bring the action and defend the government’s policy. The court adjourned the case earlier this month after the plaintiffs’ lawyers complained they could not locate Taylor to serve court papers on him.

Successful repatriation of Sierra Leoneans.
Free with registration – M2 Presswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 26, 2004
Successful repatriation of Sierra Leoneans. | M2 Presswire (July, 2004)…
–> COPYRIGHT 2004 Ingram Investment Ltd. M2 PRESSWIRE-26 July 2004-US STATE DEPARTMENT: Successful repatriation of Sierra Leoneans(C)1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07232004 The United States congratulates the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the successful repatriation of Sierra Leonean refugees. This week, the last convoys returning refugees to Sierra.

GUINEA: Refugee influx adds fuel to AIDS crisis in southeast Guinea
IRINnews.org – Jul 26, 2004
5 percent – the highest in West Africa. No reliable figures exist for Liberia, but after 14 years of civil war, UN officials currently work on an estimate of nine percent. And Sierra Leone, which underwent a decade of conflict in the 1990s, has an officially estimated HIV prevalence rate of seven percent. Until now, efforts at controlling the spread of AIDS in the Forest Region have focussed on the refugee camps, where health workers have been conducting AIDS awareness campaigns and handing out free condoms for several years. The camps even have their own clinics for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Locals need to be focusHowever, relief agencies have only recently begun to try and control the spread of AIDS amongst the Guinean host population. The American Refugee Committee (ARC), a US non-governmental organisation, has been working on AIDS prevention in Nzerekore since the end of 2002.

Ghanaian High Commissioner Visits Citizen Radio.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 26, 2004
Ghanaian High Commissioner Visits Citizen Radio. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (July, 2004).