The News Review:
- Liberia: US Raises the Stakes on Charles Taylor
- www.ghanaweb.com: Diasporian News of Thursday, 28 April 2005
- War without wounds?
- Why I love Africa
- Thousands of Girls Forced to Fight With Armed Groups
Liberia: US Raises the Stakes on Charles Taylor
AllAfrica.com – Apr 28, 2005
House ofRepresentatives April 12 calling for Nigeria’s government to extradite himto the Special Court for Sierra Leone on charges of war crimes. Taylor and Bout are said to have worked together during the conflict inSierra Leone, where diamonds provided a substantial incentive for illegalarms trade. Liberia, which Taylor controlled at the time, provided theconduit for arms to enter Sierra Leone and diamonds to exit. The resolution – which has been referred to the House Committee onInternational Relations – was sponsored by Royce and four colleagues, andcalls upon the Nigerian government “to transfer Charles Ghankay Taylor,former President of the Republic of Liberia, to the Special Court for SierraLeone to be tried for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other seriousviolations of international humanitarian law. “Royce added that Taylor, who currently lives in Nigeria as part of aU.
www.ghanaweb.com: Diasporian News of Thursday, 28 April 2005
ghanaweb.com – Apr 28, 2005
com: Diasporian News of Thursday, 28 April 2005www. com: Diasporian News of Thursday, 28 April 2005Asantehene ask Ghanaians to eschew parochial tribal interest >From Christian Akorlie, GNA Special Correspondent Bo, Sierra Leone Bo, Sierra Leone, April 28, GNA – The Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II has reiterated the call on Ghanaians to eschew parochial tribal interest and work towards the development of the country. He said such strong tribal sentiments had the tendency to derail the peace and reverse the clock of development and progress that the country had so far made. “The welfare of Ghana is important than seeing oneself as being Asante, Ga or Ewe,” the Asantehene Otumfuo said. He was speaking at a meeting with the Ghanaian contingent (GHANABATT 11) of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone at Bo, the second largest city of the country on Thursday. The Asantehene was in Bo to address the council of paramount chiefs on the role of traditional leaders in governance…
He was speaking at a meeting with the Ghanaian contingent (GHANABATT 11) of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone at Bo, the second largest city of the country on Thursday. The Asantehene was in Bo to address the council of paramount chiefs on the role of traditional leaders in governance. He arrived on Tuesday on a weeklong official visit to Sierra Leone. Otumfuo Osei Tutu said he was not interested in becoming the King of Ghana but only using his position and influence in seeking the welfare of Ghanaians and development of Ghana. “I am ready to work with any President be he Asante, Ga or Ewe to advance the welfare of the country,” he said. Otumfuo Osei Tutu asked the soldiers to always seek peace and ensure that the sovereignty of the country was maintained at all times to afford rapid development. He stressed:” But above all be at peace with each other and keep relationships that would ensure that you are your brothers keepers.
War without wounds?
Times Online – Apr 28, 2005
She assesses mental health needs, trains a team to look after them and establishes mental health services in areas where there is still conflict or where the countryside, having withstood turmoil, is without basic medical resources. Jones has worked in Central America, Chad, Afghanistan and Iraq, and for many years in the Balkans. She has recently added to her experience of man’s inhumanity to man in Sierra Leone, and of the perils of the sea in the tsunami-devastated areas of Indonesia and Sri Lanka. For her work in Central Europe she was appointed OBE, but no amount of public recognition of her IMC work could lessen the campaigning ardour that she first showed while hanging out washing on the barbed wire at Greenham. Jones has written about her Balkans experiences in her book, Then They Started Shooting. This describes the effect of the wars on the people and, in particular, on children and adolescents. Jones was in Slovenia in 1991.
Why I love Africa
BBC News – Apr 28, 2005
They say one thing and when we believe them, they do otherwise. If African honesty and sincerity remains the way it should be, I think we will have good policies which will redeem us in terms of development. Julian Croft, Australia In the late 1960s I lived on campus at Sierra Leone’s Fourah Bay College in Freetown – 600 feet above a city which never slept.
Thousands of Girls Forced to Fight With Armed Groups
Feminist Majority Foundation – Apr 28, 2005
DDR programs often ignore the problems girls specifically face, such as being ostracized by their families because they are often seen by their families as being promiscuous and dirty. In addition, only a very small percentage of girls participate in the formal DDR processes. In Sierra Leone, Save the Children found that only 4. 2 percent of girls in armed groups went through the formal DDR process.