Sierra Leone News Archives

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 5:37 pm Press Release: United Nations Eight men found guilty by a United Nations-backed court of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's brutal decade-long civil war have been transferred to Rwanda to serve their sentences.

When in power, the Sierra Leone People's Party promised that thanks to its pursuit of a pro-agriculture agenda, no Sierra Leonean would go to bed hungry by 2007.

Senior officials from Sierra Leone are in a four-day retreat in the capital Freetown, to refine a strategy to boost the country's export sector.

Charles Taylor today denied allegations that he sent rebel forces to attack Ivory Coast as part of any grand plan to destabilize the West African sub-region. "I had nothing to do with the war in Ivory Coast," Mr.

The lawyer for the African despot accused of financing rape and pillage with stolen diamonds, has blasted the War Crimes Tribunal where his client stands trial as "racist," and a tool of American foreign policy.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone, established to try rebel leaders for atrocities committed during the country's brutal civil war, handed down its last judgment Monday.

A senior UN official is on a two-day visit to Sierra Leone for wide-ranging talks on the situation in a country that was the first to be put on the agenda of the new UN Peacebuilding Commission, set up three years ago to prevent conflict-plagued States from relapsing into bloodshed, UN officials said here Thursday.

Children hold Amnesty International posters during the campaign launch against maternal deaths in Sierra Leone on Sept.

In the Seminar Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa, being held in Rome during the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops promoted by the 'Giuseppe Toniolo' Institute for the International Law for Peace and the Catholic Action International Forum, Bishop Giorgio Biguzzi of Makeni, President of the Bishops' Conference of ...

Following is the text of a speech to the European Development Days in Stockholm by Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone, on his country's response to the Global Economic Downturn.

Staff Reporter A Commonwealth Observer Group will be present during Mozambique's National and Provincial Elections scheduled to be held on 28 October next.

The diamond industry's Kimberley Process is failing due to a lack of accountability and follow-up, paving the way for an illegal trade that could see a return of conflict stones to world markets, campaigners said.

Editor's Note: Times/News freelancer Judy Sone Vue from SeaTac earned a Foreign Intrigue scholarship from the University of Washington Communication Department to intern at an English-language newspaper in Sierra Leone.

Abdul Bairoh kept his promise about returning to visit his 'Canadian Family'. The Sierra Leone native also toured his former high school in Carman and spoke to students about the challenges of living in a country that has experienced civil war.

Book Review: "The Candy Girl" Marcella Camara-Macauley Marcella Camara-Macauley was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa.

The Liberian Government has instituted "stringent security measures" to prevent spillover of the bloody unrest in neighboring, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration and naturalization Col.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

A NURSE from Chester is appealing for more people to visit Sierra Leone following her fourth trip to a children's home in the African country.

Check the reservations book of any city hotel in Sierra Leone, and the chances are most guests will be businessmen on trips to prospect for diamonds, gold, iron ore or other minerals.

Umaru Fofana looks dishevelled. His hair is overgrown and people who do not know him could be mistaken for thinking he just joined an Afro band.

Mobile banking has already taken off in Southern and Eastern Africa. Sierra Leone is now one of the few West African countries with a service providing mobile phone transactions.

Reg Nieszner put aside concerns about his own health to travel halfway around the world on a charity mission to help the people of Sierra Leone.

By Bronwen Dachs Source: Published: Monday, October 05, 2009 CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Catholic officials in South Africa will use their experiences of rebuilding after apartheid to help the church in Sierra Leone rebuild after its 11-year civil war, South African Catholic leaders said.

Guinean university student Sorie Condeh witnessed troops opening fire on opposition supporters.

Alpha Sesay 1 October 2009 Charles Taylor today called prosecution allegations that he was involved in ritual sacrifice and cannibalism "racist". The accused former Liberian president also dismissed his trial as an extension of regime change policies of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Mr. Taylor also dismissed as "lies" the testimony of one of his former commanders that he was the "boss" of both Sierra Leonean and Liberian rebel groups during both countries' conflicts.