Sierra Leone

GENDER-AFRICA: Some Progress Amidst Continuing Challenges

BANJUL, Nov 21 (IPS) - The Beijing Platform for Action in 1995 set out an agenda to address gender equality in priority areas, including poverty, education, and health care. It also committed governments to address violence...

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Masombo Group : Sierra Leone

25 of $525 raised. Started raising funds on Nov 21, 2009 Mohamed Turay, Abib Mansaray, Neneh Jalloh, and Aminata Jalloh are small-scale entrepreneurs in the town of Magburaka, in northern Sierra Leone. They are seeking a loan...

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Liberia: Rebel, President, CIA Spy

Following his claims that the US plotted against him for regime change, Mr. Charles Taylor Monday admitted that he maintained links with the US Central Intelligence Agency that he established during the formative stages of his...

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European Investors Eye Unlisted Firms

The uninspiring granite exterior of the London Stock Exchange provided the quiet backdrop for a meeting that would almost have gone unnoticed, if it did not have such a strong bearing on Africa's growth prospects.

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Children's Rights Still Violated 20 Years After Convention - Voice of America

InTheNews.co.uk Children's Rights Still Violated 20 Years After Convention Voice of America Nations are staging special events to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which came into force on...

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Ensuring child rights still a challenge, 20 years after treaty - UN officials

The Convention on the Rights of the Child has become the most widely accepted human rights treaty in history, but 20 years after its adoption, much more remains to be done to turn its promises into reality for millions...

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What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist's Big Answer

Esquire: What Makes a Nation Rich? One Economist's Big Answer We are the rich, the haves, the developed. And most of the rest — in Africa, South Asia, and South America, the Somalias and Bolivias and Bangladeshes of the world...

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China Metallurgical Group intends to acquire Sierra Leone iron ore project from Cape Lambert Iron...

Deal In Brief Nov 20, 2009 (Datamonitor Financial Deals Tracker via COMTEX) -- China Metallurgical Group Corporation is interested to acquire the Sierra Leone iron ore project from Cape Lambert Iron Ore Limited, an...

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Pictures: Sierra Leone recovery

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Books about civil war, Great Depression win Cdn Children's Literature Awards

TORONTO - Books about civil war and the Great Depression have won Canadian Children's Literature Awards. "The Bite of the Mango," written by Mariatu Kamara with Susan McClelland, won the $10,000 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian...

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