The News Review:
- Sierra Leone link suspected, confirmed
- Printer Friendly Format – Sunday Herald
- UN Envoy Lauds Debt Relief Deals Reached
Sierra Leone link suspected, confirmed
Rocky Mountain News – Feb 17, 2007
Of course, when he was 20, he also met Alex Haley. All Rights Reserved.
Printer Friendly Format – Sunday Herald
Sunday Herald – Feb 17, 2007
Save The Children’s Clarke says: “There is a danger of Liberia coasting towards a situation where emergency money dries up and there’s not enough economic development at the local level. If Liberia is failed by the international community and its own new leaders, there will be reverberations beyond its borders. NoneofitsWestAfrican neighbours are stable: Sierra Leone – the setting for the recent movie Blood Diamonds – is emerging from its own decade of darkness and civil war which ended in 2002; Guinea is in turmoil underitsailingandsickpresident LansanaConte,whohasdeclared martial law and sent his army in to quell protests against his 23-year rule. And the Ivory Coast has been split between rebels in the north and government in the south for five years. The region needs a success story and Liberia might yet offer it. Doubtless thereisalongwaytogo,butthe continued support of the international community indicated in lastweek’s discussions in Washington should help Liberia on that journey. Thecountry’sgreatestresources, however, are its people – who have endured years of brutality, violence and corrupt rule, yet show such resilience – and Johnson-Sirleaf, a totemic leader whocommandsrespectwithout resorting to a gun and knows how to talk the talk of international aid to get what she wants.
UN Envoy Lauds Debt Relief Deals Reached
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Feb 17, 2007
Sierra Leone hosts an estimated27,360 refugees, including 21,700 Liberian refugees livingin eight camps across the country. As UNHCR’s newestGoodwill Ambassador, Mr. Dalaras joins the ranks of BarbaraHendricks, Adel Imam, Angelina Jolie, Giorgio Armani andJulienClerc.