The News Review:
- One Week Back on Job, Cabdriver Slain in DC
- Feature Article of Saturday, 13 November 2004
- France flies out more of its citizens
- US ranks 27th in social progress
One Week Back on Job, Cabdriver Slain in DC
Washington Post – Nov 13, 2004
Investigators said they were awaiting results of ballistic tests on the handgun. Meanwhile, family members of Kamara gathered to grieve at his house, on a quiet residential street in Lanham. They said Kamara emigrated from Sierra Leone 17 years ago to find a better life in the United States. He has two grown children in Sierra Leone from a previous marriage. He has four children, ages 7 to15, from his second marriage…
Meanwhile, family members of Kamara gathered to grieve at his house, on a quiet residential street in Lanham. They said Kamara emigrated from Sierra Leone 17 years ago to find a better life in the United States. He has two grown children in Sierra Leone from a previous marriage. He has four children, ages 7 to15, from his second marriage.
Feature Article of Saturday, 13 November 2004
ghanaweb.com – Nov 13, 2004
A successful December 7 Ghanaian general elections will, therefore, send positive democratic signal to the rest of West Africa with the message that if Ghanaians can do it we can, too. With most of her almost 50 years existence ruled by the brutal military and autocratic on-party regimes (The only exception where there was civilian administrations are the years 1957-1966, 1969-72, 1979-81, and 1993 to present), Ghanaians have come to the conclusion that democracy is better than one-party system of the first president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and the long-running military juntas that have dominated the their countrys hot political landscape. A reminder: straddling the Gen.
France flies out more of its citizens
The Age – Nov 13, 2004
African leaders fear a full-scale war in the world’s top cocoagrower would destabilise a region which includes fragile postwarstates such as Liberia and Sierra Leone. About 800 French nationals and other foreigners flew out onThursday after days of anti-French attacks in the country, splitbetween a Government-run south and a rebel-held north since afailed 2002 coup. President Laurent Gbagbo’s supporters, who allege Paris favoursthe rebels, began looting and burning foreigners’ homes andcompanies in Abidjan on Saturday after France wiped out IvoryCoast’s air force. A French military spokesman said some victims of the violencehad been raped. There are at least 25 Australians in the country, most of whomhave elected to stay.
US ranks 27th in social progress
Pakistan Dawn – Nov 13, 2004
We are now at the same level as Poland and Slovenia,” said Prof Richard Estes, author of the 2004 Report Card on World Social Progress, a quality of life ranking. Topping the list of more than 160 countries were Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Iceland, Italy and Belgium, the report found. The bottom 10, according to the study, were Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Angola, Liberia, Guinea, Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ranking, based on data governments relay to the United Nations and the World Bank, measures countries’ capacity to meet citizens’ needs in terms of healthcare, education, human rights, and cultural diversity among other factors. “Chronic poverty is the greatest threat to social progress in the United States,” the professor said. “Today, more than 36 million Americans, almost 13 million of them children, are poor. And the total numbers of (US) poor have increased by nearly 4.