The News Review:

- S. Leone: For Women, War’s Over, Violence Goes On
- Kenema-Kailahun Highway a Death Trap! in Sierra Leone
- Ireland fifth-best country in UN index
- Board says African immigrant should be denied permanent residency

S. Leone: For Women, War’s Over, Violence Goes On
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Nov 27, 2007
They always ask for money”. Despite recent laws aimed atboosting women’s legal status in Sierra Leone, powerlessnessin the face of violence remains an everyday fact of life forcountless women like Musu. In a 1 November report AmnestyInternational said the legacy of the “unimaginablebrutality” against women during the country’s 1991-2002civil war feeds violence against them today. During the war,some 250,000 women and girls – about a third of the femalepopulation – were brutally raped, tortured and kept as sexslaves, the report said. “Rape is the only war violationthat continues to today,” Amnesty’s Sierra Leone researcherTania Bernath told IRIN. While experts in Sierra Leone saywomen are increasingly coming forth to report rape anddomestic violence to the police, such crimes are rampant andusually go unpunished.

Kenema-Kailahun Highway a Death Trap! in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times – Nov 27, 2007
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Ireland fifth-best country in UN index
Irish Times – Nov 27, 2007
The United States scores high on real per capita GDP, which at $41,890 is second only to that of Luxembourg ($60,228), but less well on life expectancy – joint last in the top 26 countries, along with Denmark and South Korea, at 77. Per capita GDP is 45 times higher in Iceland than in Sierra Leone.   The index – blending 2005 figures for life expectancy, educational levels and real per capita income – finds that all 22 countries falling into its “low human development” category are in sub-Saharan Africa, with Sierra Leone last. The region suffers major Aids-related societal problems. In 10 of these countries, two children in five will not reach the age of 40, said the compilers at the UN Development Program. The report also warned that the world’s poor face the most immediate and severe costs of climate change, with the threat of “unprecedented reversals” in poverty reduction, health and education.

Board says African immigrant should be denied permanent residency
abc13.com – Nov 27, 2007
because there is enough evidence that he was aware of 29 executions that took place in his home country in 1992. Samuel Komba Kambo, a legal immigrant from Sierra Leone, spent nearly a year jailed while fighting deportation as the government tried to revoke his visa. He was released from custody in October after U. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez ruled that U.