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Tuesday, August 4, 2026
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SIERRA LEONE-POPULATION: Displaced Start The Trek Towards Home
The government of Sierra Leone has embarked on a repatriation programme to return thousands of internally displaced persons to their homes.SIERRA LEONE-HUMAN RIGHTS: Bondo Stand Firm On Circumcision
The circumcision of some 700 displaced women and girls at a camp near here has sparked off another round of acrimonious debate over the continued practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Sierra Leone.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Stability Under Siege //rpt//
Three aborted coups in four months have cast an ugly shadow over the prospects for lasting peace and stability in this West African nation.SIERRA LEONE-POPULATION: Displaced Camp No Longer A Safe Haven
An uneasy calm in the North of the country where villagers fear rebel attacks has sent more and more people fleeing to an overcrowded camp for displaced persons.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Massacre Puts Country Back On The Alert
The murder of more than 150 civilians in the north of Sierra Leone, barely a week after the official signing of a cease-fire agreement, has the country's war-weary population once again on the alert.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Joy and Relief Follow Peace Accord
Sierra Leoneans reacted with joy and relief to a weekend accord that marked the end of the five-year civil war in the West African nation.SIERRA LEONE-RELIGION: A Clash Between Faiths
Followers of a new indigenous religion in the poorer areas of the city here have encountered stiff resistance from Christians and Muslims, who have dismissed the new religion as a haven for the country's outcasts.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Rewards for Repentant Rebels
In a desperate bid to curb resurgent violence in Sierra Leone, the country's civilian government is offering incentives to rebels who surrender.SIERRA LEONE-CRIME: Government Fights Rebels and Robbers
The seven-month-old civilian administration of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah is not only locked in a protracted war with the Revolutionary United Front rebels, but also with renegade soldiers who have turned to crime.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Hunger and Torture Behind Rebel Lines
What relief workers and members of the Sierra Leonean security services saw when they visited a town in eastern Sierra Leone was hundreds of emaciated people who bore signs of torture.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: Renewed Rebel Attacks Jeopardise Peace
Renewed attacks on villages and fighting between the government forces and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) have jeopardised moves towards restoring peace in Sierra Leone.GAMBIA-POPULATION: Migrants’ Dreams Turn Sour
People from other West African nations used to consider Gambia the gateway to Europe and the United States, but many who arrived here with the hope of moving on have seen their dream gradually fade away.SIERRA LEONE-MEDIA: Honeymoon Between Government and Press Ends
The arrest and detention of journalists here in recent weeks appears to mark the end of the honeymoon between the independent press and the seven-month old government of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah./IPS ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN/ GAMBIA: Campaign To Save Dwindling Resources
The September polls to end two-years of military-rule was the first in a series of hurdles before this tiny West African country.GAMBIA-ENVIRONMENT: Campaign To Save Dwindling Resources
The September polls to end two-years of military-rule was the first in a series of hurdles before this tiny West African country.GAMBIA-MUSIC: Artiste With a Vision
The Gambia -- a country which has traditionally shown little regard for its pop musicians -- now has one whose international reputation makes him difficult to ignore./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/ GAMBIA-MUSIC: Artiste With a Vision
The Gambia -- a country which has traditionally shown little regard for its pop musicians -- now has one whose international reputation makes him difficult to ignore.SIERRA LEONE-LIBERIA: Sick And Desperate, Refugees Land
The emaciated returnees were so weak they could barely hug their waiting relatives after disembarking from the 'Victory Reefer', the freighter that had carried them from war- torn Liberia.SIERRA LEONE-MEDIA: Parliament Sits On Press
Sierra Leone's politicians have never been particularly cosy with the country's independent press, but hardly any one expected that the newly elected parliament would restrict media coverage of the House a month after its first sitting.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: BOB MARLEY JOINS THE WAR
BOB MARLEY WOULD TURN IN HIS GRAVE. THE REGGAE LEGEND, WHO PREACHED BLACK UNITY, HAS BECOME A FACTOR IN SIERRA LEONE'S CIVIL WAR.SIERRA LEONE-POLITICS: THIRD ARMED FORCE STYMIES PEACE EFFORTS
THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW REBEL MOVEMENT IN SIERRA LEONE AND THE CONTINUED PRESENCE OF FOREIGN TROOPS COULD FURTHER COMPLICATE THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN THE WEST AFRICAN COUNTRY AND PROLONG THE FOUR-YEAR REBEL WAR WHICH HAS CLAIMED 10,000 LIVES.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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