Sierra Leone News: Remembering Bobson Kamara
There was snow this Sunday morning when I woke up in Southern Germany the first snow of the year. Bobson Kamara liked snow. He liked goat cheese too, and French dried sausage called saucisson, mussels,...
View ArticleSOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT SIERRA LEONE: Juvenile detention centres lack means...
By Ahmed SahidNasralla (De Monk) Most of the inmates share mattresses and nets, little sleep on the cold floor Jesus is Freedom: inmates express their faith and hope through sketches on the walls of...
View ArticleSierra Leone Ebola regulations and other laws must not be used to curtail...
(Source: Amnesty International) Sierra Leone should stop using emergency regulations brought in to combat Ebola as a pretext to restrict freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Ebola regulations and other laws must not be used to curtail...
(Source: Amnesty International) Sierra Leone should stop using emergency regulations brought in to combat Ebola as a pretext to restrict freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty...
View ArticleIsmael Beah's Journey From Child Soldier to Activist Storyteller
It's not every former child soldier who has a memoir on the New York Times bestseller list. Or has the Washington Post's reviewer declare that, "everyone in the world should read this book." Ismael...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: THE DARK SIDE OF SIERRA LEONE’S DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST...
The 20th Century is gone and the celebrations that marked the beginning of the 21st Century on January 1, 2000 reverberated throughout the world. This new Millennium was considered by many (especially...
View ArticleUnsound, Unjust and Unwise -- Banning Pregnant Girls From School in Sierra Leone
It's now widely known that the government of Sierra Leone has instituted a ban on pregnant girls from taking exams and attending regular schools. The ban gives Sierra Leone the dubious distinction of...
View ArticleISIS' child soldiers: What will happen to 'cubs of the caliphate'?
(CNN)A boy in a black knit cap stands in front of a man on his knees. He locks eyes with the captive, brow furrowed, his gaze seething with anger. He lifts a pistol and shoots the man in the forehead....
View ArticleJimmy Thoronka: concerns raised over Sierra Leone athlete's welfare after arrest
Sprinter who disappeared after Commonwealth Games has been interviewed by immigration officials at a London police station...
View ArticleCanada: Ex-Guantanamo Child Soldier Freed (HRW - Human Rights Watch)
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (Toronto) - The Canadian court's release on bail of the former child soldier and Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr on May 7, 2015, is a significant step toward ending...
View ArticleEbola: Soldiers from Northern Ireland sent to Sierra Leone to help curb virus...
Soldiers from Northern Ireland are to be sent to Sierra Leone to help curb the Ebola outbreak which has spread through the country. [TICON-A VIDEO] It's understood some 40 troops have already arrived...
View ArticleEbola: Soldiers from Northern Ireland sent to Sierra Leone to help curb virus...
Soldiers from Northern Ireland are to be sent to Sierra Leone to help curb the Ebola outbreak which has spread through the country. [TICON-A VIDEO] [TICON-A VIDEO] It's understood some 40 troops have...
View ArticleSIERRA LEONE: Juvenile detention centres lack means to reform inmates
After spending years without trial detainees return to society worse off than they were He was 15 years when he was brought to the remand home for juveniles in Kingtom, Freetown, after he was arrested...
View ArticleChampions and Orphans: The 1968 Fresno City College-College of the Sequoias...
Here’s the story. College of the Sequoias football Coach Al Baldock wanted to beat Fresno City College Coach Clare Slaughter in 1968. Instead, Slaughter – blessed with some of the finest talent in the...
View ArticleSierra Leone athlete fleeing Ebola freed and given accomodation after public...
A homeless sprinter facing deportation from Britain after staying to escape Ebola in Sierra Leone has been given Home Office accommodation following an outpouring of public support and donations. Jimmy...
View ArticleUK firm 'employed former child soldiers' as mercenaries in Iraq
Former director acknowledges Aegis Defence Services may have recruited former child fighters in Sierra Leone...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: 62,000 child deaths in Sierra Leone due to lack of toilets
Some 36 prominent international health and development experts including WaterAid, AMREF Health Africa, the World Medical Association and others have called for an end to a crisis that has claimed the...
View ArticleDeath penalty will not reform disenfranchised youths in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2016 As the government of Sierra Leone prepares to resume the death penalty, despite recent commitment to abide by United Nations’ and other global human rights...
View ArticleSoldiers fly out from Northern Ireland base to aid Ebola fight in Sierra Leone
Soldiers based in Northern Ireland are to be deployed to Sierra Leone on a humanitarian mission to combat the Ebola outbreak. Around 40 troops have already arrived in the West African country, a...
View ArticleA Vrba Message: Jews, Ebola and Two Holocausts
by Morris Samuels There is growing concern about the multiple connections between Ebola and a US bioweapons lab at the epicenter of the outbreak in Sierre Leone. The organizations associated with the...
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