The News Review:

- Sierra Leone Cholera Outbreak Deaths Double to 54
- UN rejects private peacekeepers
- New American Ambassador Visits Energy And Power.

Sierra Leone Cholera Outbreak Deaths Double to 54
planetark.com – Aug 30, 2004
“The outbreak of cholera has risen to 374 cases and 54 deaths from August 1 to August 27,” Al Hassan Seasay, director of disease prevention, told a meeting of health officials and aid agencies. “The disease is now not only in Freetown where it started but.

UN rejects private peacekeepers
Pakistan Dawn – Aug 30, 2004
Singer of the Brookings Institution warns the international humanitarian community to be cautious about its dealings with private security forces. “The emergence of a global trade in hired military services, better known as the ‘privatized military industry’, is one of the most interesting developments in warfare over the last decade,” he writes in the current issue of ‘Humanitarian Affairs Review’, a quarterly journal of global policy issues published in Belgium. These firms, he says, now operate in over 50 countries, helping win conflicts in Angola, Croatia, Ethiopia-Eritrea and Sierra Leone. From 1994 to 2000, the US defence department alone entered into over 3,000 contracts with US-based firms, which provided goods and services estimated at a value of more than 300 billion dollars. The Canadian military, Singer adds, recently privatized its supply chain to the British firm, Tibbett and Britten. But the work of the privatized military industry is not limited to governments, because clients have included rebel groups, drug cartels and humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Singer says no example better illustrates the industry’s growing activity than the war in Iraq, where private military contractors handled everything – from feeding and housing coalition troops to maintaining the most sophisticated weapons systems.

New American Ambassador Visits Energy And Power.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 30, 2004
New American Ambassador Visits Energy And Power. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (August, 2004). Hull together with his Public Affairs Officer, Kevin Green on Frida.