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- Unionists declare indefinite strike in Sierra Leone.
- Gay.com > Election News > Suspect held in activist’s death
- Editorial Observer; In War-Torn Africa, Young Girls Are Very, Very Old
- Reform the UN

Unionists declare indefinite strike in Sierra Leone.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 3, 2005
Unionists declare indefinite strike in Sierra Leone. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (January, 2005).

Gay.com > Election News > Suspect held in activist’s death
Gay.com – Jan 3, 2005
css”); Gay. com > Election News > Suspect held in activist’s deathPolice in Sierra Leone have arrested and charged a former janitorial worker with the murder of FannyAnn Eddy, a pioneering gay and lesbian rights activist in the African country. Eddy, founder of the country’s only gay and lesbian agency, was found dSkip to content.

Editorial Observer; In War-Torn Africa, Young Girls Are Very, Very Old
New York Times – Jan 3, 2005
African girls have long lived with the fear of being raped by power-drunk soldiers representing various government or rebel groups. The life of a teenage girl on the continent is almost never easy, and the threats she faces are uncountable, from female genital mutilation to teenage prostitution. The raping of women and young girls has become practically de rigueur in Africa’s wars, from Sierra Leone to the Ivory Coast, from Burundi to Rwanda to Sudan. Beyond rape in war zones, there’s a mentality that says that sex between a desperate refugee and a wealthy old man is somehow consensual. In Monrovia, which is a postwar mess with war orphans sleeping alongside open roads, electricity a distant dream and food scarce, young girls living in the refugee camps engage in a ritual as old as time. In the evenings, as the sun is beginning to set, they leave the fetid, trash-strewn camps and assemble along the main roads. Dressed in the best attire they can muster — tight jeans, strappy high-heeled sandals and halter tops — they wait for the fancy S.

Reform the UN
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 3, 2005
More recently, the U. fumbled even its agreed-upon peacekeeping missions in places like Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra Leone and Congo. Now a commission appointed by Annan is recommending that the Security Council's top rank of five permanent members – set in 1945 as the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China – be expanded to reflect the very different world that exists today. The top candidates would be Germany, Japan, India and Brazil. A more representative Security Council is long overdue. The catch is that proliferating the council's veto power might further impede an organization already almost fatally hobbled.