The News Review:
- Killer chimp finds refuge in Sierra Leone
- John Prendergast: Africa’s sudden good news
- 124 Newly Elected Parliamentarians Sworn in Sierra Leone.
- State House unveils Transitional Team in Sierra Leone
Killer chimp finds refuge in Sierra Leone
Independent Online – Sep 26, 2007
News – Environment: Killer chimp finds refuge in Sierra Leone. But last year he was among 31 chimps from the Tacugama sanctuary in Sierra Leone which mauled one man to death and attacked four others.
John Prendergast: Africa’s sudden good news
Sacramento Bee – Sep 26, 2007
That’s what Americans are used to in articles with Africa datelines: grim tales of a hopeless and devastated continent. But I am far more optimistic about Africa’s future than I was when I started. Last week’s election of a 53-year-old former insurance executive as president of Sierra Leone was the latest sign of progress. Despite some isolated incidents of unrest, the democratic swearing-in of Ernest Bai Koroma was contrary to what much of the world has come to expect from Africa. All Rights Reserved…
Instead, the country got an election run by some of the most conscientious, earnest polling officials I have ever met. During the elections I observed in August and the runoff earlier this month, a few incidents of unrest were countered by a tidal wave of efforts by Sierra Leone’s civil society groups, churches, mosques and government officials to ensure a peaceful outcome. “It’s a brand new day for Sierra Leone,” a former child soldier named Elijah told me. All the ex-combatants I met in Tongo Fields and Freetown, the war-scarred capital, insisted they would never be lured back to a life of war in the bush. “We fought for nothing,” another former child soldier told me. “We are so tired of war. We don’t want to be used for fighting and end up with nothing.
124 Newly Elected Parliamentarians Sworn in Sierra Leone.
Awareness Times – Sep 26, 2007
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State House unveils Transitional Team in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times – Sep 26, 2007
In the transition period between now and the approval of Koroma’s new cabinet by the Sierra Leone Parliament, the Office of the President has last Monday released a list of over fifty Sierra Leoneans who are to be considered as part of a Presidential Transitional Team. Speaking with Awareness Times last evening was one of the Coordinating Members of the Presidential Transition Team, Mr. Momoh Kawusu Konte, an American trained Masters degree holder in Economics and Social Sciences.