The News Review:
- Leader receives President of Sierra Leone
- UN Security Council authorizes arrest of former Liberia’s…
- THE WESTERN LIMIT OF THE WORLD
- A goat isn’t just for Christmas…
- Fate in ‘white gold’
Leader receives President of Sierra Leone
Libyan Jamahiriya Broadcasting Corporati… – Dec 11, 2005
During the meeting, the Leader and President, Kabbah reviewed the ongoing preparations to hold the 6th ordinary session of the AU summit conference, due to take place in Khartoum, during which the Presidential Committee of Seven will introduce the final measures concerning Great Jamahiriya proposals to establish Federal African Ministries. The meeting also tackled the issue of Sahel-Saharan Community(Cen-Sad ) and the means to promote this march. The accompanying delegation of the President of Sierra Leone, the Assistant Secretary of the General People’s Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation, the Secretary General of (Cen-Sad ) Community and the Ambassador of Sierra Leone to Great Jamahiriya , attended this meeting. Related News.
UN Security Council authorizes arrest of former Liberia’s…
EastDay.com – Dec 11, 2005
The Council, determining that the return of Taylor would constitute an impediment to Liberia’s stability and a threat to its peace, decided to include in the mandate of UNMIL the former leader’s apprehension, detention and transfer to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, in the event of his return to Liberia. The Council also decided that, as a part of its additional mandate, UNMIL should, in transferring or facilitating the former president’s transfer to the Special Court, keep the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone, as well as the Council, fully informed. The Special Court is an independent tribunal established jointly by the United Nations and the government of Sierra Leone in 2002 to try serious violations of international humanitarian law, such as war crimes and crimes against humanity, committed since 1996, at the height of that country’s 1991-2002 civil war. Taylor and 11 others indicted by the Court are charged with war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
THE WESTERN LIMIT OF THE WORLD
Washington Post – Dec 11, 2005
In fact, through much of the book we can’t tell exactly what scheme Snow and his ragtag crew are pursuing, as though the toxic gasses seeping from their ship are obscuring the edges of the plot, which makes it all the more unnerving. What’s clear is that Snow and his ferociously violent partner, Bracelin, have somehow incapacitated their captain and plan to dispose of their multimillion-dollar cargo in some shady corner of the world’s chemical market that won’t require too much documentation or delay. From San Francisco to Panama to Sierra Leone, it turns out that disguising a 600-foot tanker is just about as difficult as you might expect, but the coast guards of the various nations that turn them away (or accept their bribes) are the least of Snow’s worries. He needs to sell these chemicals before this old ship breaks up, "the mutinous ripples" on board gain momentum, or his psychotic partner kills them all. But even more pressing is Snow’s hopeless affection for a female crew member half his age. He’s gallantly offered to pretend they’re lovers to protect her from sexual assault on board the ship, but the ruse only reminds him that they’re not really sleeping together. The story opens with the arrival of a new crewman, a troubled young seminary student named George Maciel, who’s never been to sea in his life.
A goat isn’t just for Christmas…
Times Online – Dec 11, 2005
Oxfam has already sold more cloven-hooved creatures than last year and “we haven’t even had our Christmas rush yet”. Although they are leading the charge, goats are by no means the only anti-consumerist prezzie that you can choose. Companies such as the Good Gifts Catalogue offer bikes for midwives (£35), an acre of rainforest (£25), a hive of bees (£20) or a Kalashnikov for a farmer in Sierra Leone (£25) who, I am assured, retools them for non-violent means. That the goats sell best implies that we still like to put a pretty face on Third World misery, but it’s undeniably a movement. If charity begins closer to home, you can even — it was announced last week — put stem cells from your newborn baby’s umbilical cord on ice for 25 years. It costs £1,250 but you cure any future life-threatening illnesses. Quite a gift, but does it leave anyone else panicking for the Furby or hankering after that look of childhood wonderment which only gross-out consumerism can inspire? Because, inevitably, the real question is whether the trend is about ethics and cutting up your credit card or about providing the giver with a bigger thrill than the recipient.
Fate in ‘white gold’
commercialappeal.com (subscription) – Dec 11, 2005
FourAfrican countries derailed similar talks in Cancun, Mexico, two yearsago. The divisive issue was the same: Cotton subsidies. “L’or blanc”Burkina Faso ranks 175th of 177 countries in the United Nationshuman development index, above only war-ravaged Sierra Leone andfamine-plagued Niger. Benin ranks only slightly better, at 161. Iftheir cotton crops don’t make money in international trade, millions gohungry.