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- Sierra Leone: ‘Family Talk’ Empowers Country to Move Past Civil …
- UK Jewish group seeks justice and aid for victims of Sierra Leone war
- Sierra Leone: Prosecution Seeks Up to 60 Years for RUF Leaders
Sierra Leone: ‘Family Talk’ Empowers Country to Move Past Civil …
AllAfrica.com
As a result renewed aggression prompted by fear or a desire for revenge continues to threaten the peace. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );To encourage wider dialogue and help create more possibilities for individual and community healing the Maine-based Catalyst for Peace foundation teamed with the Sierra Leone nongovernmental organization Forum of Conscience for the Fambul Tok program. In the Krio language “Fambul Tok” means “family talk. ” The program enlarges Sierra Leone’s traditions for discussing and resolving issues within the family to encompass a much larger community and provide it with a structure for beginning a process of reconciliation.
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UK Jewish group seeks justice and aid for victims of Sierra Leone war
Ha'aretz
-based organization dedicated to alleviating poverty and severe deprivation in that western African country. The Sierra Leone Poverty Relief is a small organization that seeks to fund education for children in various villages across the country where a near decade-long brutal war has left thousands destitute and in appalling states of health. The charity also works toward bringing vital medical treatment to residents ultimately aiming to make villagers self-sufficient.
Sierra Leone: Prosecution Seeks Up to 60 Years for RUF Leaders
AllAfrica.com
Prosecution has asked for sentences of 60 years for Issa Sesay and Morris Kallon and 40 years for Augustine Gbao. First accused Sesay and second accused Kallon were found guilty in February on 16 of 18 counts. Third accused Gbao was found guilty on 14 of 18 counts. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );The three were charged with acts of terrorism and collective punishments unlawful killings sexual violence physical violence the use of child soldiers abductions and forced labour looting and burning houses and attacks on UNAMSIL personnel.