The News Review:
- Sierra Leone Diamond Co. Posts $3.1M Loss
- West Africa: The next Afghanistan?
- Lawmakers Poised to Make Change to Asylum Rules
Sierra Leone Diamond Co. Posts $3.1M Loss
Diamonds.net – Apr 29, 2005
April 29, 2005) The Sierra Leone Diamond Company, a diamond exploration company with license interests wholly focused in Sierra Leone, has posted a net loss of $3. 1 million for the year ending December 31, 2004, after charging $1. 5 million for shares issued for past services. This compares with a net loss of $0. 3 million for 2003.
West Africa: The next Afghanistan?
MSNBC – Apr 29, 2005
This is a place most Americans and their government haven’t paid much attention to. It is war-torn, remote and desperately poor. But that might be about to change.
Lawmakers Poised to Make Change to Asylum Rules
WNYC – Apr 29, 2005
The Act is best known for a measure that would prevent states from giving drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants. But, it ALSO includes changes to procedures for seeking political asylum. WNYC’s Marianne McCune has been following an applicant from Sierra Leone through the sometimes agonizing process of gathering and presenting the necessary evidence. REPORTER: Bashirâs life in New York City is a kind of purgatory â between the bloody civil war he escaped in Sierra Leone and the solace he hopes to find in the United States. When he watches the city go by through the windows of an elevated subway train â heâs not all here. BASHIR: My person is here, mais all my mind in the trouble over there. REPORTER: Six years ago in Sierra Leone, he says, he came home to find a group of rebels about to rape his sister…
When he watches the city go by through the windows of an elevated subway train â heâs not all here. BASHIR: My person is here, mais all my mind in the trouble over there. REPORTER: Six years ago in Sierra Leone, he says, he came home to find a group of rebels about to rape his sister. His father was a local imam, and when he tried to stop them, Bashir says, they shot his father. BASHIR: I see heâs kill my father. I canât do nothing.