Western Region (Sierra Leone)

                   

Sierra Leone: Commission Launches First Human Rights Report

allafrica.com     Aug 28, 2008   3 related          

Posted to the web 28 August 2008 Mohamed Fofanah Freetown A barefoot girl watches expressionless as men clad in expensive suits and women in designer clothes make their way on foot to the Community Centre in Kroo Bay,...                    

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RIGHTS-SIERRA LEONE: Activists Will Accept Only Full Abolition

ipsnews.net     Aug 28, 2008          

FREETOWN, Aug 28 (IPS) - Sierra Leonean rights activists have served notice on the government that they will campaign against any attempt to retain the death penalty in the new constitution and insist the recommendations...                    

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Hon Nyang Attends Ecowas Parliamentary Forum

allafrica.com     Aug 28, 2008          

Hon Haddy Nyang Jagne, the National Assembly member (NAM) for Jeshwang constituency, recently returned from an ECOWAS parliamentary committee meeting on communication and information technology held in Freetown, Sierra...                    

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Sierra Leone: Activists Cry Foul Over Mining Policy

allafrica.com     Aug 27, 2008   2 related          

Posted to the web 27 August 2008 Lansana Fofana Freetown In December 2007, unrest broke out in the diamond mining region of Kono in the east, between kimberlite mining corporation Koidu Holdings and locals in the lease...                    

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Sierra Leone: Guma Says No Water Shortage Yet

allafrica.com     Aug 26, 2008   1 related          

Posted to the web 26 August 2008 Ibrahim Tarawallie Freetown Public relations officer of Guma Valley water company Monday dismissed rumours that Freetown would soon face some serious water shortage. Joseph Musa's reaction...                    

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Liberia: Joe Wylie Identifies November 12 Plotters

allafrica.com     Aug 26, 2008   1 related          

Posted to the web 26 August 2008 C. Winnie Saywah & Rose M. Saulwas An active participant in the failed November 12, 1985 Quiwonkpa Coup invasion has identified several individuals who he said assisted and facilitated the...                    

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Sierra Leone: Britain Failed to Fight Corruption in Salone- Kabbah

allafrica.com     Aug 26, 2008   2 related          

Posted to the web 26 August 2008 Tanu Jalloh Freetown Former President Alhaji Dr Ahmed Tejan Kabbah said in an exclusive interview that corruption was endemic in the country but the British, who were helping, did certain...                    

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Designer brings haute couture home to S.Leone

reuters.com     Aug 22, 2008   3 related          

By Katrina Manson FREETOWN (Reuters) - Women carrying corn on their heads and children selling peanuts stop to stare as a leggy model in a tiny, blue dress strikes a pose outside a steel-doored clothes shop in Sierra Leone's...                    

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Sierra Leone agency wants ban on Blood Diamond film (AFP)

yahoo.com     Aug 21, 2008   2 related          

FREETOWN (AFP) - With the 2007 Hollywood movie "Blood Diamond" still pulling big crowds into Freetown's movie halls, Sierra Leone's new promotion agency would like nothing better than to see it banned. "This 'Blood Diamond'...                    

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Record drug bust: More charged

news24.com     Aug 21, 2008          

Freetown - Three more people will be charged in connection with a massive cocaine haul in Sierra Leone mid-July, assistant inspector-general of police Francis Munu said on Thursday. In all more than 40 people were arrested...                    

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