The News Review:

- Ivory Coast threatens hard won gains
- All Africa Conference of Churches Urges Church Peace Work
- Labour Congress Reaffirms Industrial Action.

Ivory Coast threatens hard won gains
Taipei Times – Nov 11, 2004
“When I get back home, I will start to make gardens to survive, and then make blocks to rebuild what once was my small but decent house,” said one refugee, 62-year-old Momo Perry. It took an unprecedented commitment by the international community, and the world’s largest deployments of peacekeepers, to get refugees like Perry home. In 2002, British, UN and West African armies crushed a vicious Liberia-backed insurgency in Sierra Leone. The next year, US, UN and West African forces and Liberian rebels routed the chief promulgator of West Africa’s wars, warlord Charles Taylor in Liberia. Today, 75 percent of the world’s 62,000 UN peacekeeping troops are trying to secure recent peace deals across Africa, and US$2. 9 billion of the UN’s US$3. 9 billion peacekeeping budgets are spent here.

All Africa Conference of Churches Urges Church Peace Work
Worldwide Faith News – Worldwide Faith News (press release) – Nov 11, 2004
Dandala was addressing various church leaders, civil society leaders and women leaders during a public forum in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The forum was organized by the Christian Council of Sierra Leone (CCSL). The forum s theme was Political, Economic and Ecclesiological Challenges facing the church in Africa. Dandala was leading the AACC delegation for a pastoral visit to Sierra Leone and Liberia last month…
He added that, the church must also take lead in building the weaker democratic structures in Africa, social and economic foundations, and put in force measures against discrimination of women. He said that those vices were so much responsible for numerous causes of instabilities in Africa. The AACC delegation and Heads of churches in Sierra Leone also met with the Commissioner of Anti-corruption Commission, Valentine J. Briefing the delegation, Mr. Collier said corruption is one of the greatest challenges facing many African governments. If you look around in any country and you see children looking for food from dustbins, he said, then not only is something wrong in that country, but you are also seeing effects of corruption at first sight.

Labour Congress Reaffirms Industrial Action.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 11, 2004
Labour Congress Reaffirms Industrial Action. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (November, 2004).