The News Review:

- UN Faces More Accusations of Sexual Misconduct
- Opposition party rejects Sierra Leone Election Commissioner.
- Theatre offers outlet for Sierra Leone youth
- A frontier between civilisations

UN Faces More Accusations of Sexual Misconduct
Washington Post – Mar 13, 2005
officials and outside observers say there have been cases of abuse in almost every U. mission, including operations in Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Kosovo. “This is a problem in every mission around the world,” said Sarah Martin, an expert on the subject at Refugees International who recently conducted investigations into misconduct by U.

Opposition party rejects Sierra Leone Election Commissioner.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 13, 2005
Opposition party rejects Sierra Leone Election Commissioner. | Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (March, 2005).

Theatre offers outlet for Sierra Leone youth
abc.net.au – Mar 13, 2005
With three quarters of the population living in poverty, young people are mobilising to secure some kind of future for themselves. In some cases, this is turning into violence. But as our Africa correspondent Zoe Daniel reports, music and theatre are also being used to develop a youth culture and to give young people an outlet for their anger. ACTOR 1: (knocking on door) Good morning sister Uz (phonetic)ACTOR 2: Madam Kumbi (phonetic) ZOE DANIEL: In a disused warehouse in Freetown young actors record a radio soap opera.

A frontier between civilisations
BBC News – Mar 13, 2005
The British crossed this frontier in the early 19th century and tried to found a new society modelled on their own – with citizenship under the crown, the rule of law, free speech, institutions of parliamentary government: pioneering European dedicated to recreating Africa in their own image. They tried to plant the seeds of the 18th century Enlightenment in the soil of tropical West Africa. Sierra Leone today is one of the poorest countries on the planet.