The News Review:
- Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Have Panel Discussion Friday
- Liberia: Taylor Seeks to Postpone Trial Again
- Refugee All Stars sing messages of peace.
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Have Panel Discussion Friday
The Chattanoogan – Aug 14, 2007
at the Sheraton Read House in the Davenport Room (first floor). Richard Winham from NPR Music 88 will serve as moderator.
Liberia: Taylor Seeks to Postpone Trial Again
AllAfrica.com – Aug 14, 2007
com14 August 2007Posted to the web 14 August 2007Faatimah HendricksThe special court trying the former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, will next week consider an application by defence lawyers to postpone the trial until January next year. The Special Court for Sierra Leone announced in The Hague, in the Netherlands, that the trial would not proceed on August 20 as originally scheduled. Instead, a "status conference" would be held to determine the length of the delay. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); In a motion posted on an. charlestaylortrial.
Refugee All Stars sing messages of peace.
Free with registration – Times Union – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 14, 2007
14–SCHENECTADY — Reuben M. Koroma led his band through their opening number “Weapon Conflict,” on Sunday evening, singing an old African proverb, “When two elephants are fighting, the grass dem’ a-suffer. ” Koroma and the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars know all about the civilians who suffer when two powers go to war. Just a few short years ago, the members of the nine-piece band were living in squalid refugee camps in Guinea. Now, they’re touring the globe as musical ambassadors of peace, and for nearly.