The News Review:
- Sierra Leone sends Liberian fighters home
- S.Leone on alert at borders for Guinean dissidents
- Sierra Leone’s riches entice Timis
Sierra Leone sends Liberian fighters home
Independent Online – Jan 18, 2005
The fighters were all deserters who abandoned their units within the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation Democracy (Lurd) or the armies of former president Charles Taylor as the fighting reached its apex in mid-2003, according to Sierra Leone’s national security chief Brigadier Kellie Conteh. “Sierra Leone has an international obligation to ensure that the deserting soldiers in the conflict in Liberia are processed and taken to safe areas to be protected until such time as the conflict has subsided in their own area,” Conteh said. An eight-member Liberian team was in the Sierra Leone capital at the weekend to discuss the return of the former combatants, among the tens of thousands who took up arms for one of three warring factions in the second of two civil wars to strafe Liberia since 1989.
S.Leone on alert at borders for Guinean dissidents
San Diego Union Tribune – Jan 25, 2005
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January 25, 2005FREETOWN – Sierra Leone has ordered soldiers on its border with Guinea to stop anyone who might have been involved in last week’s attack on Guinea’s president from crossing its frontier, an army official said on Tuesday. "Security forces in Sierra Leone have received intelligence that some Guineans allegedly involved in the assassination attempt against President Lansana Conte have fled into the country," said chief of defence staff Major General Sam Nboma. A senior security official in the capital Freetown told Reuters that Guinea had sent intelligence agents to Sierra Leone to work with local security forces in hunting any dissidents. Conte’s convoy was attacked last Wednesday as he drove through Conakry, according to government officials.
Sierra Leone’s riches entice Timis
Telegraph.co.uk – Jan 24, 2005
iframe{padding-bottom:10px}. Mr Timis, chairman of Regal Petroleum and a director of European Goldfields, hopes to raise around £20m for the Sierra Leone Diamond Company when it lists on the Alternative Investment Market in London today. The offering is expected to value the company at about £100m. Mr Timis has put £6. 6m of his money into the venture and taken the title of non-executive chairman. Allen Dolan, the Canadian president and chief executive of SLDC, said of Mr Timis’s involvement: “He has an excellent nose for a good deal.