The News Review:

- Ivory Coast conflict could sway region
- Second colleague accuses Halloran
- Sierra Leone Soldiers for UN Missions.
- Ghana Elections, West Africa Elections.

Ivory Coast conflict could sway region
Seattle Times – Nov 10, 2004
In 2002, British, U. and West African armies crushed a vicious Liberia-backed insurgency in Sierra Leone.

Second colleague accuses Halloran
The Age – Nov 10, 2004
Ralph La Pierre, 55, told the Sierra Leone High Court that hehad become convinced that some form of assault had taken place atthe Freetown home he shared with Halloran and another war crimesinvestigator, former Tasmanian police sergeant Mandy Cordwell. He also told the court it was his view that an internal inquirythat found insufficient evidence to prove the girl was sexuallyassaulted was “a joke”. Mr La Pierre, who worked under Halloran as a senior criminalinvestigator at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, said that heand Ms Cordwell had decided to talk to the girl about her relationswith Halloran after becoming aware that she was staying at theirhouse. He said that on June 3, 2004, after Halloran had left for work,Ms Cordwell took the girl upstairs and questioned her for aboutfive minutes. He and Ms Cordwell then had “a brief conversation”about the girl’s activities at the house…
Mr La Pierre, who worked under Halloran as a senior criminalinvestigator at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, said that heand Ms Cordwell had decided to talk to the girl about her relationswith Halloran after becoming aware that she was staying at theirhouse. He said that on June 3, 2004, after Halloran had left for work,Ms Cordwell took the girl upstairs and questioned her for aboutfive minutes. He and Ms Cordwell then had “a brief conversation”about the girl’s activities at the house. “At this time, as a result of my conversation with Mandy, I wasconvinced that some kind of sexual assault had taken place in thehouse over the last three or four nights and that further inquiriesand a statement were required from the young girl,” Mr La Pierresaid. He said that he and Ms Cordwell took the girl to a nearbyleisure complex, having told her brother, Sheka Fofanah, that theywere going shopping. “In order to get the girl to talk, we had to give someprotection to the girl, so Mandy told Sheka that she was going tobuy some girls’ items of clothing,” Mr La Pierre said. He and Ms Cordwell arranged for her to be interviewed by aSierra Leone police officer attached to the Special Court, SergeantJanet Tommy.

Sierra Leone Soldiers for UN Missions.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 10, 2004
Sierra Leone Soldiers for UN Missions. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (November, 2004).

Ghana Elections, West Africa Elections.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 10, 2004
–> COPYRIGHT 2004 Financial Times Ltd. (From Concord Times (Sierra Leone) – AAGM) Byline: Kofi Akosah-Sarpong Kofi Akosah-Sarpong says democracy and stability hungry West Africa has a stake in the impending Ghanaian general elections as not only a tranquilizer in the sub-region but also to radiate as the region’s oasis of democratic growth. With Accra saying it has foiled a coup plot and military officers of Guinea Bissau demanding pay arrears beating their army chief of staff, General Verissimo Correia Seab, to death and Cote d’Ivoire descending into all out conflict with French peacekeepers engaged in fight with the Ivorien military and religious riots in Monrovia and armed rebels of Nigeria’s Delta region in a war of attrition with Abuja and the world largest United Nations peacekeeping troops stationed in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire and coup trial just ended in Burkina Faso and coup trial going on in Mauritania, Ghana’s December 7 general elections and her on-going attempts for democratic entrenchment, described as an oasis of West Africa’s democratic growth, has implications for a West Africa that leads Africa in instability and.