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The First Lady of Sierra Leone, Alice Sia Koroma, certainly has her work cut out for her.
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Hey readers check out this cool designer from Sierra Leone This was originally posted at GOODMagazine.com . By Andrew Price Photos by Henry Jacobson Adama Kargbo was born and raised in Sierra Leone, but moved ...
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Africa: International Courts Brainstorm Conjugal Visits for Prisoners
... right but its application and, especially, its financing is a problem. Today, only the Special Court for Sierra Leone takes care of certain family visits for indigent prisoners in Freetown. Indeed, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...
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UNT students aspire to educate Africa's children
... the Kroo Bay Initiative and will leave Aug. 5 for the Kroo Bay slums, one of the poorest areas in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. Of the about 6,000 people in Kroo Bay, almost all live in dilapidated shacks surrounded by heaps of garbage and ...
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Sierra Leone: Artisanal Fishing At Risk
The small village of Tombo on the Freetown peninsula is a centre of artisanal fishing in Sierra Leone, but its future and the future of all local fishermen in the country might be at risk.
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S Leone pledges cocaine crackdown
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has said he will prevent the country becoming a key transit point for the international drugs trade.
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Africa: Writer Wins Award For Diamond Report
... Namibian-based associates owned a string of companies seeking to cash in on the gem trade. With the history of Sierra Leone in sharp relief, the judges praised Grobler for this watchdog work in ensuring that diamonds are not bloodied," a statement ...
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Trio saddle up to help African slum children
... German fellow student, Christine Mueller. The trio were moved after learning about Save The Children's work in Sierra Leone through a website. They watched a film report about children growing up in Kroo Bay - " a slum built on a rubbish dump on the ...
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Africa/Guinea Bissau - Cocaine: a threat to fragile local establishments from Guinea Bissau to ...
... - a fact that is self-explanatory as to the nature of the problem. During these same days, in neighboring Sierra Leone, 700 kilograms of cocaine were confiscated in the Freetown (the nation's capital) airport, in a plane with falsified Red Cross ...
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French director shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers
... the special representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict, Special Court for Sierra Leone prosecutor Steven Rapp and France's UN Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert. Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier turned musician from ...
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Progress in making criminal leaders pay
... state to be indicted was Liberian President Charles Taylor. Although the prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Taylor in March 2003 for his crimes in the war that had devastated that country, the indictment was not disclosed ...
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Sierra Leone's Cocaine Plane Saga: Transport Minister Speaks Out
The July 13 impounding of a plane loaded with cocaine, and the subsequent arrest of alleged drug traffickers, overshadowed all government business in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for several days last week.
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Misha Glenny: A dangerous fiction
If it had been in Florida, last week's seizure of 700kg of pure cocaine at Sierra Leone's main airport could have passed for an extract from one of Carl Hiaasen's novels.
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... of this success is the story of Ishmael Beah. At 15 years of age he was rescued from the battlefields in Sierra Leone by UNICEF and rehabilitated in a facility run by a nongovernmental organization known as "Children Associated With the War." ...
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Giggs humbled by bravery of South Africa's sufferers
... last year he met children battling to overcome the HIV stigma in China. With family roots stretching to Sierra Leone, Giggs is keen to develop his work with Unicef by fronting the bid to halt the rise of HIV there, an initiative he helped launch ...
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University of North Texas to offer petroleum courses at Universities Center at Dallas
... playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa make up UNT's summer theatre season. Student forms organization to benefit Sierra Leone slum dwellers Students plan to travel to war-torn African nation in August to deliver needed school supplies. Music from Mount ...
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Bilingual course makes world of difference
... students in the program at Clay Intermediate Center were Latino, but the Africans - including those from Togo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Congo, Sudan and Kenya - were the second-largest group. Others were Arabic, Indian, Russian, Palestinian and Asian. ...
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Teachers must be vigilant to threat of female genital mutilation amongst pupils
... watch closely, you realise that Yasmin shuffles as she talks. This is because of the FGM carried out on her in Sierra Leone when she was 14: "One morning my uncle just woke me up and took me to the house of a woman I didn't know. They tied my hands, ...
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Unisa Turay, Sierra Leone Blue Flag volunteer, "Helping other people is like helping myself"
... salts to people suffering from chronic stomach illnesses and cholera KROO BAY, The Kroo Bay area of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown is one of the poorest and most marginalised in the country. During the country's six-month rainy season, flood ...
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Sierra Leone: Rampant disease washes in with flood water
... worm infestations, scabies, abscesses, sores, and boils all common ailments in the Kroo Bay community of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown local medical official Amadou Kandor says it's little wonder 35 is an average life expectancy for the slum's ...
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