Latest Sierra Leone Military News
- Ceremony honours little-known black battalion 5 Jul 2008 22:15 GMT
... #2 Construction Battalion C.E.F., Canada's only all-black military unit. The 92nd anniversary of #2 Construction ... returned from a tour of duty in Sierra Leone, said the battalion inspired him to carry out ... that's given to me, and as a soldier I'll be as disciplined and I'll do ...
- AU treads softly on Zimbabwe 5 Jul 2008 05:29 GMT
... instance, and Botswana. Yet otherwise, between the military coup plotters and the presidents-for-life, the majority ... have now been joined by countries like Sierra Leone and Liberia, which have emerged as democracies despite ... emerged as democracies despite devastating civil wars. Sierra Leoneans recently voted out the ruling party candidate, ...
- Philly's role in Nollywood 5 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT
... influence. Saccoh, a 44-year-old reggae musician from Sierra Leone who sings about love and positive values, ... the 1990s, when the violent reign of military dictator Sani Abacha made many in the ... Nollywood-style films tend to be Liberian or Sierra Leonean, many of them refugees from brutal civil ...
- Gambia: Peace Building [editorial] 5 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT
... the rest of the world. The Gambian military, for instance, has constantly been at the forefront ... since Liberia, in the late 80s, then Sierra Leone, and now Darfur, propagating peace and security. Beyond ...
- When peace talks undermine justice 4 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT
... in UN dealings with the Lord's Resistance Army, an insurgent group that has ravaged northern ... children and turning the boys into child soldiers and the girls into sex slaves. Prodded ... example, a warrant issued by a joint UN-Sierra Leone court for the arrest of Charles Taylor ...
- Stronger witness protection needed to ensure accountability for war crimes 4 Jul 2008 20:53 GMT
... the recruitment and use of children as soldiers in combat. Amnesty International had also received ... Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court. The organization ... with the support of the Sri Lankan Army to challenge the LTTE in eastern Sri ...
- Assault on innocence 4 Jul 2008 15:28 GMT
... THE girl in Sierra Leone's Freetown spends all her time caring for ... raped repeatedly and deliberately impregnated by Serb soldiers. Hill said the international community had to ... was abducted by Uganda's fearsome Lord's Resistance Army, forced to walk hundreds of kilometres to ...
- Uganda: The Woes of A Child Soldier 4 Jul 2008 10:29 GMT
... diamond-fuelled war from 1991 to 2002 left Sierra Leone in pandemonium with about 50,000 dead and ... of the horror forced on a child soldier and the extraordinary power of redemption. Beah starts ... out again, in fear of becoming a weapon again, he undertakes an extremely dangerous bus ...
- Uganda: The Woes of A Child Soldier [book review] 4 Jul 2008 09:08 GMT
... diamond-fuelled war from 1991 to 2002 left Sierra Leone in pandemonium with about 50,000 dead and ... of the horror forced on a child soldier and the extraordinary power of redemption. Beah starts ... out again, in fear of becoming a weapon again, he undertakes an extremely dangerous bus ...
- A Path to Compromise in Zimbabwe? 4 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... which cannot be considered legitimate." Delegates from Sierra Leone, Senegal and Nigeria also said they would not ... years, fears that the purpose of the military mobilization since the March 29 election may not ...
- 'Violence won't be tolerated' 3 Jul 2008 21:55 GMT
... run-up to local elections marred by violence, Sierra Leone's president warned on Thursday that the police will ... peaceful and credible election aided by the military ... if necessary," President Ernest Koroma said in ...
- UK: Failure to protect witnesses allows suspected war criminals to avoid prosecution 3 Jul 2008 21:54 GMT
... the recruitment and use of children as soldiers in combat. Amnesty International wrote to the ... Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court. The organisation ... with the support of the Sri Lankan Army to challenge the LTTE in eastern Sri ...
- U.N. Lacks Muscle to Fight Sexual Abuse in Peacekeeping 3 Jul 2008 18:28 GMT
... at the increasing number of peacekeepers, mostly soldiers, expelled from U.N. missions on charges of ... including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and Haiti. "The United ... of the maintenance and training of their military forces. Therefore, if this were seen to ...
- Brit carrier deals inked at last 3 Jul 2008 13:56 GMT
... billions on massive great aircraft carriers while soldiers are struggling for lack of cheap helicopters, ... actually very useful across the spectrum of military operations. An aircraft carrier - and more ... much ice, as was quite plain in Sierra Leone and But a carrier, accompanied by a few ...
- Tongo Needs Military Deployment 3 Jul 2008 13:18 GMT
... the All Peoples Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), calls were made for military deployment to the town. SLPP chairman in ... PPRC to facilitate the deployment of the army throughout the region," he said. Sahr James ...
- ICC orders release of war crimes suspect 3 Jul 2008 11:55 GMT
... Lubanga, who is charged with enlisting child soldiers, was being prejudiced by the refusal of the ... tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda or Sierra Leone - and there were hopes that a ...
- Court orders release of Congo war crimes suspect Thomas Lubanga 3 Jul 2008 11:55 GMT
... Lubanga, who is charged with enlisting child soldiers, was being prejudiced by the refusal of the ... tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda or Sierra Leone - and there were hopes that a ...
- Court to release war crimes suspect 3 Jul 2008 11:53 GMT
... Lubanga, who is charged with enlisting child soldiers, was being prejudiced by the refusal of the ... tribunals for the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda or Sierra Leone - and there were hopes that a ...
- Is the global domination of Starbucks finally on the wane? 2 Jul 2008 23:16 GMT
... book club and promoted Ishmael Beah's "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier," a harrowing account of growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone. The subliminal message is that buying Starbucks coffee makes you an intelligent person with ...
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