The News Review:
- New Election Timetable in Sierra Leone is unacceptable
- The Death of Democracy in Sierra Leone
- Where is Charles Taylor’s defense?
- African Diamonds to spin off Sierra Leone, Guinea ops into West…
- Deputy Ambassador on plight of Sierra Leoneans in Guinea
New Election Timetable in Sierra Leone is unacceptable
Mathaba.Net – Aug 25, 2006
Public Release Statement: Date: 20th. August 2006"The political arrangements in Sierra Leone in the past three decades is a well-wrapped fraud consisting of domestic rogues, whose lack of idealism, self-sacrifice and dedication to public service have led us today to a foundation of chronic ethnic chauvinism, immorality and general decadence. Rather than sacrifice for the happiness of the nation, these political prostitutes of the rotten SLPP cum APC bandwagon proffer to slaughter the motherland and her youth on their alter of greed, opulence, lust, betrayal, faithlessness and self-aggrandisement". By ALIMAMY BAKARR SANKOH Chairman and leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Democratic League (PDL). Subject: Constitutional order under serious attack in Sierra Leone Statement: Two weeks ago, President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah decided and announced 28th. July 2007, the new date for holding the forth presidential and parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone.
The Death of Democracy in Sierra Leone
Mathaba.Net – Aug 25, 2006
Public Release Statement 20th August, 2006 "What is frightening in Sierra Leone today is that the SLPP cum APC government in Freetown, which is supposed to wipe-off the tears of our down-trodden (which constitute nine-eight per cent of the Sierra Leonean population), rejects any suggestion that Sierra Leone degenerate every passing hour and day, contrary to what everyone knows. The dictator Tejan Kabbah led SLPP cum APC government in Freetown is pretending to possess the magic wand with which to salvage the ravaged system caused by their misrule". By Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh. Subject: National Election Commission in Sierra Leone is a Rubbish arrangement. Since the collapse of British colonialism in Sierra Leone, forty-five years ago, all the so-called elections called and held were characterized by voters’ apathy, rigging, violence, party thuggery and a myriad of electoral malpractices.
Where is Charles Taylor’s defense?
International Herald Tribune – Aug 25, 2006
Originally jailed in Sierra Leone after his capture near Cameroon, Taylor arrived in The Hague thanks to a chain of acts of international cooperation: an agreement by the ICC to provide space and facilities for the trial, an agreement from the Netherlands to act as host country so long as another country would volunteer to take custody after the trial, agreement by Britain to house Taylor should he be convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and finally, the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1688 as the glue holding the web of bilateral agreements together. On June 20, Taylor was flown to the Netherlands in the custody of the United Nations. With the transfer complete and preparations for the trial moving forward, no doubt the defense has its hands full getting ready and responding to an indictment that includes more than 30,000 pages of evidence. But it is disturbing that the defense seems to be completely unprepared to fight, if the court of public opinion is any measure. The Special Court – including the judges, the prosecutors and the registry – has been unrestrained in presenting its version of the facts to the world.
African Diamonds to spin off Sierra Leone, Guinea ops into West…
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 25, 2006
African Diamonds to spin off Sierra Leone, Guinea ops into West African Diamonds. | Europe Intelligence Wire (August, 2006). The group said it plans.
Deputy Ambassador on plight of Sierra Leoneans in Guinea
Awareness Times – Aug 25, 2006
In an interview with Awareness Times in Makeni, the Deputy Ambassador disclosed that they have for the past couple of years being receiving cases of deprived and stranded Sierra Leoneans in Guinea. “The Embassy in one way or the other rescued Sierra Leoneans from various Police cells in Conakry while at the same time helping with accommodation. The diplomat however explained that the Embassy has thought it necessary to divide Conakry city into various communities, each represented by an experienced Sierra Leonean and charged with he responsibility of handling cases between Sierra Leoneans and their Guinean counterparts. “These people would be able to settle minor cases in their own communities,” pointing out that they will only refer major cases to the Salone Union Office for peaceful settlement.