The News Review:

- S Leone to press ahead with EU trade deal
- Sierra Leone: applaud African achievements.(THIS MONTH’S PRIZE…
- First UN convictions over child soldiers

S Leone to press ahead with EU trade deal
Independent Online – Dec 1, 2007
Deputy Finance Minister Richard Conteh said Sierra Leone would sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will replace preferential tariff agreements due to expire this year, because it cannot afford to be left behind. “The southern (African) countries have almost signed the EPA with west Africa waiting. This has been considered as a big blow,” Conteh told a symposium organised by anti-poverty activists. The European Commission this week announced that Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique have initialled an interim EPA…
Deputy Finance Minister Richard Conteh said Sierra Leone would sign the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will replace preferential tariff agreements due to expire this year, because it cannot afford to be left behind. “The southern (African) countries have almost signed the EPA with west Africa waiting. This has been considered as a big blow,” Conteh told a symposium organised by anti-poverty activists. The European Commission this week announced that Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique have initialled an interim EPA.

Sierra Leone: applaud African achievements.(THIS MONTH’S PRIZE…
Free with registration – African Business – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 1, 2007
(THIS MONTH’S PRIZE LETTER)(Letter to the editor) –> COPYRIGHT 2007 IC Publications Ltd. I was delighted to see the fulsome tribute made to the peoples of Sierra Leone in Katrina Mason’s article Democratic feat bodes well (African Business November 2007 issue). My family were all from this West African state which suffered such terrible abuses, despotic leadership and incredible hardships in recent.

First UN convictions over child soldiers
highbeam.com – Dec 1, 2007
find CCPA Monitor articles. In a ground-breaking move, the War Crimes Court in Sierra Leone has handed down the first-ever convictions by a UN-backe…
They were forcibly recruited, given drugs, and used to commit atrocities. Thousands of girls, as well as boys, were forced to become soldiers and often subjected to sexual abuse. The Special Court for Sierra Leone found three men from the rebel Armed Forces Revolutionary.