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GUINEA: Sierra Leonean Refugees Demand To Be Repatriated Home
More than 20,000 Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea have demanded to be repatriated home following a series of attacks on their camps by rebels and Guinean security officials.GUINEA: Sierra Leonean Refugees Demand To Be Repatriated Home
More than 20,000 Sierra Leonean refugees in Guinea have demanded to be repatriated home following a series of attacks on their camps by rebels and Guinean security officials.SIERRA LEONE: Clemency Calls Follow Execution Of Army Officers
Sierra Leone's president, Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, has defied international appeals for clemency and went ahead and executed 24 army officers by firing squad for supporting the previous military government.POLITICS-SIERRA LEONE: Exposing The Hidden Hand Of Libya
Libyan plan to invest in Sierra Leone's tourism and industrial sectors may suffer setbacks if trial of detained rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, continues to expose Tripoli's hand in the funding of the West African country's civil war.SIERRA LEONE: Kabbah Urged To Commute The Death Sentences Of 34 Soldiers
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has been urged to commute the death sentences of 34 soldiers handed down this week by a court martial in the Sierra Leonean capital of Freetown.MUSIC-SIERRA LEONE: Taming Rastafarians
Five months ago, an irate lynch mob rampaged through Freetown forcing Rastafarians to cut off their dreadlocks, as punishment for alleged collaboration with the ousted military junta.SIERRA LEONE: Rap Star’s T-shirt A Major Factor In Conflict
Two years after his death in the United States, Black American rap star, Tupac Shakur, has emerged as a major factor in Sierra Leone's seven-year civil war.LIBERIA: Sierra Leonean Named In Plot To Murder President Taylor
Liberia has accused a top Sierra Leonean official of plotting to murder President Charles Taylor and destabilise the West African country.CINEMA-SIERRA LEONE: Lights, Camera, Smile!
Multi-talented artist Ernest Brewah oftern is described in Sierra Leone as this West African nation's version of the African-American movie star Eddie Murphy.POLITICS-SIERRA LEONE: No Lawyer Willing To Defend Rebel Leader
No Sierra Leonean lawyer appears willing to defend Corporal Foday Sankoh, Sierra Leone's rebel leader, who has been charged with treason here.POPULATION-SIERRA LEONE: Refugees Go Home
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has embarked on a programme to repatriate more than 300,000 Sierra Leonean refugees from neighbouring countries.POLITICS-SIERRA LEONE: Five Journalists Sentenced To Death
The decision by a Sierra Leonean court to sentence 16 people, including five journalists, to death by hanging for collaborating with the country's ousted military regime, has been welcomed here.POLITICS-SIERRA LEONE: Rebels Demand Their Leader
A bloody showdown looms in Sierra Leone, where the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) has given the government one week to release its leader or face an all-out campaign of terror.SIERRA LEONE: More Than 9000 Families Get Help From The Red Cross
More than 9,000 poor families in the war- torn district of Pajehun on the border with Liberia, are benefiting from seeds and food from the Red Cross.SIERRA LEONE: Ex-Child Soldier Offers Training, Not Guns
Ivan Melvin Rogers, a former child soldier, has become one of the major campaigners against the use of children as fighters in Sierra Leone's civil conflict, and has encouraged former fighters to seek vocational, instead of military training.LIBERIA: Taylor ‘Uncovers’ Plot To Topple His Government
Liberian security forces have been placed on alert after president Charles Taylor accused ECOMOG, the West African peacekeeping force, of trying to overthrow his administration.ECONOMY-SIERRA LEONE: Windfall From Overseas
Sierra Leone's 4.8 million people will soon begin to reap the fruits of last week's conference held at the United Nations headquarters in New York to seek funds to rehabilitate the war-ravaged West African country.POLITICS-SIERRA LEONE: Rebel Leader Starts New Life In Prison
Sierra Leone's rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who was recently extradited from Nigeria, has started a new life in a prison here.POLITICS-SIERRA LEONE: Court Martial of Junta Members Begins
The Sierra Leone government began the first spate of court martial proceedings in the capital of Freetown this week, with 38 officers of the now defunct national army standing trial for plotting the May 1997 coup which ousted the civilian government.ENVIRONMENT/DEVELOPMENT BULLETIN-SIERRA LEONE: Libya Lends A Helping Hand
Libya has agreed to lend a helping hand to Sierra Leone where an ongoing conflict with rebel forces has caused a major shortage of nearly all commodities throughout the country.SIERRA LEONE: ICRC Provides Support to Clinics, Hospitals
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has opened support lines to clinics and hospitals in Sierra Leone to help treat thousands of victims of rebel atrocities in the north and east of the country.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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