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- For Sierra Leoneans, It’s Hide or Return
- Sierra Leone: Radio stations face challenges after civil war.
- Sierra Leone: Opposition leader accuses ruling party of “killing…

For Sierra Leoneans, It’s Hide or Return
Washington Post – Sep 3, 2004
“Those who do not comply with this requirement may be subject to removal,” a department statement said. The withdrawal of temporary protected status, often called “special status,” has sent the Johnstons and thousands of other Sierra Leoneans around the United States into hiding and opened a debate about the morality of deporting immigrants to a nation still reeling from war. Paul Barrow, a Sierra Leone journalist who exposed government corruption and torture in his country, was seized from his New Jersey home in May and deported to Sierra Leone the following month, according to a spokesman for the Newark office of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Among those threatened with deportation is former Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback B. Tucker, who was hoping the team would apply for a P-1 visa on his behalf before he was released in May, a team spokesman said. Friends of Sierra Leone, a nonprofit organization founded by former Peace Corps volunteers, is lobbying for an extension of the protected status…
Tucker, who was hoping the team would apply for a P-1 visa on his behalf before he was released in May, a team spokesman said. Friends of Sierra Leone, a nonprofit organization founded by former Peace Corps volunteers, is lobbying for an extension of the protected status. The year-long protection was extended five times under the Clinton administration and the current administration since it was first granted to Sierra Leoneans in 1997. The Bush administration has also withdrawn the protected status of a few hundred immigrants from the island of Montserrat, just south of Puerto Rico. The islanders were received in the United States after a 1995 volcanic eruption killed 19 people and left most of the island uninhabitable. When Congress passed the law in 1990, it mandated that the status be granted during armed conflict, environmental disaster or extraordinary circumstances.

Sierra Leone: Radio stations face challenges after civil war.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 3, 2004
–> COPYRIGHT 2004 Financial Times Ltd. (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Andrew Jeneke Kromah, founder of two independent radio stations in Sierra Leone, says private commercial broadcasters face many challenges there after a decade of civil war that ended in 2002. He was delivering this year’s Commonwealth Broadcasting Lecture, at a ceremony in London on 2 September during which he also received the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s 2004 Elizabeth R Award for an Exceptional Contribution to Public Service Broadcasting. Kromah is managing director of Skyy 106. 6 Freetown and Kiss 104 in Bo. He launched his first station, Kiss.

Sierra Leone: Opposition leader accuses ruling party of “killing…
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 6, 2004
Sierra Leone: Opposition leader accuses ruling party of “killing democracy”. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (September, 2004). Bah entitled "’SLPP is killing democracy’ – Ernest Koroma" published by Sierra Leone newspaper Concord Times on 3 Sep.