The News Review:

- Liberia Asking for Help to Stop Caterpillar Swarms
- Former child soldier to give talk at Souhegan High
- Can S Leone flush away corruption?

Liberia Asking for Help to Stop Caterpillar Swarms
Voice of America 
“We don’t understand the problem fully and that is why we want to get our people out as quickly as possible. “Hammond and a team of insect consultants will inspect crop damage and polluted water sources in the border areas this weekend. That survey will eventually extend into Sierra Leone and Guinea to prevent what Hammond says could be a regional catastrophe. The areas affected are some of Liberia’s richest agricultural zones where much of the nation’s cassava plantains bananas and potatoes are grown. Environmentalist Ben Donnie says the infestation is sure to worsen Liberia’s already tenuous supply of food. “People who are producing all of this sugar cane from which people brew cane juice that market may come down” he said. “All the beans and the peanuts.

Former child soldier to give talk at Souhegan High
Nashua Telegraph NH 
Ishmael Beah is a man with a remarkable life story. His childhood was stolen by a vicious civil war during the 1990s in the west African country of Sierra Leone that forced him to join in the fighting in order to survive. After recovering from his early life as a child soldier he is now an ambassador for UNICEF and a New York Times best-selling author. n Wednesday Beah will come to Souhegan High School to share his experiences with a group of students who may find it hard to believe the tragedy violence and conflict that Beah will surely describe. Every word however is true and every account is to be trusted because this man lived every moment of it. Souhegan faculty and students have been busy preparing for Beah’s long-awaited arrival.
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Can S Leone flush away corruption?
BBC News UK 
It all began in late 2007 when I travelled to Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone for the inauguration of the then-recently elected president Ernest Bai Koroma. I had obtained a confidential report commissioned by the incoming government into official corruption. President Koroma had come to power on a strong anti-corruption ticket and the report was one of his first initiatives. I reported on the revelations in the (until-then) confidential study and quizzed President Koroma about his promises. During that same trip in late 2007 I went to the top floor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building to interview the newly-appointed Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura.