The News Review:

- Going upstream in Sierra Leone.(Diamond Mining)
- 822 Zambian Peacekeepers Leave Sierra Leone.
- Sierra Leone: ABC TV to start operations “soon”, says…
- ‘Freetown is a cholera incubator’

Going upstream in Sierra Leone.(Diamond Mining)
Free with registration – New York Diamonds – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 1, 2004
(Diamond Mining) –> COPYRIGHT 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US) Of the small-scale mechanized operations at work in Sierra Leone, Magna Egoli is the largest diamond mining company in the country. At full production, the mine will produce some $25 million worth of diamonds per year, for a diamond jewelry group with offices in Israel and New York. The past several years in the diamond industry have been characterized by diamond companies making a move downstream into the jewelry consumer markers. But the vertical integration of the business goes both ways. Another, less evident trend of late has been companies going upstream in order to guarantee more regular supplies of rough diamonds…
His New York office remains the primary conduit for the group’s marketing operation, as well as the center of its activities in the jewelry sector. The following article is adapted from an address delivered by Waldman at the Rough Diamond Seminar of the Israel Diamond Institute, which took place in Ramat Gan in July. In the diamond industry Sierra Leone is best known for its large and high quality diamonds. As a manufacturer seeking security of rough.

822 Zambian Peacekeepers Leave Sierra Leone.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 31, 2004
| Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (August, 2004). Zambian peacekeepers were deployed at Tongo Fields, Eastern Si.

Sierra Leone: ABC TV to start operations “soon”, says…
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 1, 2004
Sierra Leone: ABC TV to start operations “soon”, says director. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (September, 2004).

‘Freetown is a cholera incubator’
Independent Online – Aug 31, 2004
Initially confined to the Freetown area, particularly the eastern Rokupa district, the outbreak has spread to Yeliboya, an archipelago nestled in the Atlantic Ocean near Guinea, local media reported. Though there had been no cholera in Sierra Leone for the past four years, the 15 islands that make up Yeliboya are regularly infected with the disease due to poor sanitation. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has distributed vaccines and medicines to help Sierra Leone deal with the disease, which is relatively simple and inexpensive to treat. Its spread can be arrested through proper food hygiene and the protection of drinking water from contamination. Cholera reappeared in west Africa in 1970 after more than a century of absence, spreading across the world’s poorest continent, where it has now become endemic, according to the WHO.