The News Review:
- Sierra Leone VP lobbies for UN Security Council seats for Africans
- Sierra Leone’s 14 runaway athletes get Australian visas
- … to Africa: Haunted by poverty, writer travels to Sierra…
Sierra Leone VP lobbies for UN Security Council seats for Africans
International Herald Tribune – Sep 21, 2006
Security Council, telling the General Assembly on Thursday that the council would never be democratic or fair without it. “We are very unhappy about the sluggish pace of the Security Council reform which is close to the heart of Africa,” Berewa said. He insisted that Africa deserves to get “its rightful place” on the council â probably amounting to more than one seat for countries of that continent.
Sierra Leone’s 14 runaway athletes get Australian visas
Taipei Times – Sep 7, 2006
Runner Dady Alie Bangura and cyclist Alhassan Bangura received visas yesterday, joining a dozen compatriots who are now either working or studying in Sydney. “That’s 14 out of 14, so we’re absolutely rapt,” refugee advocate David Addington told the Australian Associated Press. Almost 7,000 people were issued with Commonwealth Games Travel Authority visas to the March 15-26 Games in the southern port city of Melbourne. At least 25 athletes were reported missing during the games, including two-thirds of the Sierra Leone team…
Almost 7,000 people were issued with Commonwealth Games Travel Authority visas to the March 15-26 Games in the southern port city of Melbourne. At least 25 athletes were reported missing during the games, including two-thirds of the Sierra Leone team. The Sierra Leone athletes were found at various locations in Sydney in the week following the Games and were granted bridging visas while their new applications were processed. At the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, 20 of the 30 athletes Sierra Leone sent failed to leave Britain as they were supposed to. British authorities did not give details on those cases. Sierra Leone has a violent history that has left it among the world’s poorest countries. Commonwealth Games organizers paid for the team’s airfare to Australia.
… to Africa: Haunted by poverty, writer travels to Sierra…
Free with registration – Miami Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 1, 2006
It is the summer of 2004. THE MOTHER CONTINENT Writer, sons experience ‘difference’ of Africa It is a dark and stormy night in the summer of 2006, and I am back in Africa for the first time in two years. Sierra Leone, to be exact. I have just survived customs and baggage claim and am now on my way into town. This requires a helicopter ride. There’s no sensation of leaving the ground as the copter rises from the airport, no sense of being in the air as it ferries us across Lungi Bay, no bump of returning to the ground as it sets down minutes later at the jetport in Freetown. You simply close the door on one night dark view and open it on another.