The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: ACC May Probe Sacked gi Boss
- Sierra Leone: mbudsman’s ffice to Investigate Abuse in Government
- Liberia: The International Community Had Its Mind Made Up Against …
- Sierra Leone beach resort is village’s ticket to better life
- Sierra Leone Krios…Get De-Slaved!! Free Africa!

Sierra Leone: ACC May Probe Sacked gi Boss
AllAfrica.com
The UNDP an organization funding some of the activities of GI is said to have requested the return of all funds believed to have been diverted and use them for their intended purpose. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );Speaking to Concord Times yesterday Kabba said President Ernest Bai Koroma had never asked nor called for an inquiry into the disappearance of the sum of Le58 million entrusted to him to fund some of the programmes of his office. He denied suggestion that he was sacked as a result of his failure to account for the said money which apparently got missing while Kabba and some staff of GI were traveling to the eastern district town of Kono for one of their provincial open dialogue programmes. Concord Times had published a front page story that President Koroma has ordered a proper investigation into the missing Le58 million which Kabba insisted was stolen following a car accident while on their way to Kono.

Sierra Leone: mbudsman’s ffice to Investigate Abuse in Government
Newstime Africa
It draws its pow­ers from Sec­tion 146 of the Con­sti­tu­tion and it is empow­ered to do ?inves­ti­ga­tion? of ?any action taken or omit­ted to be taken by or on behalf of any depart­ment or min­istry of gov­ern­ment; any statu­tory cor­po­ra­tion or insti­tu­tions of higher learn­ing set up entirely or partly out of pub­lic funds?.   In short all those in gov­ern­ment who abuse power and have their com­plaints filed in the mbudsman?s office will have to answer to this ffice. For almost seven years the mbuds­man in Sierra Leone was a renowned Free­town lawyer Fran­cis Gab­bidon. Then it was a ?silent office?; and Gab­bidon tar­nished the very word ?mbuds­man? mak­ing him­self into more of a polit­i­cal flunkey of the gov­ern­ing SLPP rather than a man whose office exists to redress admin­is­tra­tive wrongs.

Liberia: The International Community Had Its Mind Made Up Against …
AllAfrica.com
Nothing he did could change this impression and Liberia suffered because of it Mr. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );”They had made up their minds it really did not matter whatever I did” Mr. Taylor told the judges today when responding to international community allegations against him that he provided support to Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels who waged an 11 years war in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone beach resort is village’s ticket to better life
Los Angeles Times
2 Sierra Leone – The dawn rose over lushly carpeted mountains and broke gently along the miles of powdery white beach in the village improbably named River No. It was Sunday and for most of Sierra Leone a day of rest. But for this community it was a workday — the busiest of the week. Patrick Bendu met the fishing boats that bobbed in the Atlantic surf.
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Sierra Leone Krios…Get De-Slaved!! Free Africa!
Standard Times Press
This was after DNA technology proved that his ancestors on his mother’s side descended from Mende and Temne people the two largest ethnic groups in the Country. (Washington’s) celebrity status has enabled him to draw attention in the U. to one of the poorest countries in the worldThe Mende people gave him the ancient title of Gondobay Manga II.