Latest Sierra Leone Military News
- New UN Military Adviser Takes Up Post Amid Surge in Peacekeeping 25 Jul 2008 02:20 GMT
... New UN Military Adviser Takes Up Post Amid Surge in ... long and distinguished career with the Nigerian Army, beginning in 1973, rising up the ranks ... negotiated joint border patrols between Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea. Just before he left the mission, ...
- Liberia: NPFL Insider 'Zigzag' Marzah alleges Taylor Ordered Atrocities 24 Jul 2008 23:37 GMT
... recounted numerous atrocities committed in Liberia and Sierra Leone, all of which he said had been ... claimed that near the end of the Sierra Leonean conflict, Taylor ordered him to execute Revolutionary ... Sankoh cried over the dead civilians and soldiers and burned houses. Marzah said he called ...
- First lady 24 Jul 2008 21:51 GMT
... Feature Writer, Friday The First Lady of Sierra Leone, Alice Sia Koroma, certainly has her work ... in statesmanship from childhood. "I am a Sierra Leonean from Kono District, the breadbasket of Africa. ... help mitigate the core problems that besiege Sierra Leoneans today. In pursuit of a dream IIRME, ...
- No more impunity 24 Jul 2008 17:09 GMT
... Rwanda, the brutalized women and children of Sierra Leone and Sudan — to provide a sense of ... The arrest of Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian-Serb Military Commander who has been similarly indicted, should hopefully ...
- The heat of the battle - Southam soldier reports from Afghanistan 24 Jul 2008 16:12 GMT
... last year and before that was in Sierra Leone helping to train the county's army. A military medic, Cpl Morgan volunteered to go to ... Pte Doherty was killed along with another soldier when their platoon were attacked by the ...
- Prize defendant 24 Jul 2008 10:33 GMT
... tribunal has already jailed generals, warlords and paramilitary thugs in cases that have revolutionised international ... state, he had no control over the army. Prosecutors insist he shared responsibility with his ... rented from the International Criminal Court, the Sierra Leone Special Court is trying former Liberian President Charles ...
- Letter to Donors on Reconstruction after Cyclone Nargis 24 Jul 2008 04:34 GMT
... the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the Burmese military government prevented international humanitarian agencies from entering the ... the second worst in the world after Sierra Leone. An estimated 75 percent of hospitals and clinics ...
- UN lacks muscle to end sex abuse? 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
... at the increasing number of peacekeepers, mostly soldiers, expelled from UN missions on charges of ... overseas, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Cote dIvoire, Liberia and Haiti. The ... sexual violence. And the demands on peacekeeping troops are so great that they may ignore ...
- Sudan: Milosevic, Taylor Cases Prove Bashir Arrest Will Help Country 24 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... received direct battlefield support from the Sudanese military. The ICC is doing no more than acknowledging ... Accra, Ghana, when the special court for Sierra Leone unveiled an indictment against Taylor for war crimes ...
- White House sex crimes must be exposed 24 Jul 2008 01:37 GMT
... "a few bad apples" low in the military hierarchy, I knew that we were seeing ... underwear; the documented reports of female US soldiers deployed to smear menstrual blood on the ... sentenced after the wars in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, so Americans must hold accountable those who committed, ...
- Despite complaints, international justice is advancing 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
... of the ICTY indicted Karadzic and his military chief, General Ratko Mladic, and even louder when ... the prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Taylor in March 2003 for his crimes ...
- Guinea travel advice 23 Jul 2008 18:56 GMT
... 2008. A mutiny by part of the army and a police strike both resulted in ... city Conakry and in all areas near military camps. You should avoid all demonstrations and ... travel in the areas of Guinea bordering Sierra Leone, except for road travel by day on the ...
- French director shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers 23 Jul 2008 16:33 GMT
... shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers In an interview with AFP, Sauvaire conceded ... Children and Armed Conflict, Special Court for Sierra Leone prosecutor Steven Rapp and France’s UN Ambassador ... personally of the belief that the real weapons of mass destruction are small weapons.” His ...
- The trial of Karadzic 23 Jul 2008 15:28 GMT
... particular. It is possible to argue that army leaders and the president of Serbia at the ... on trial in the special tribunal for Sierra Leone. After years of stalling Cambodian authorities now ...
- Author, Peace Activist Col. Ann Wright To Speak at Dallas on Wednesday, July 23 23 Jul 2008 08:49 GMT
... the occupation of Iraq and bring U.S. soldiers home. Wright's newly-released book, "Dissent: Voices of ... the stories of government insiders and active-duty military personnel who also spoke out, leaked documents, ... and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State ...
- » Flushing away billions 23 Jul 2008 08:07 GMT
... the all-conquering Malawian kwacha and even the Sierra Leone leone. In January, a Z$10-million note was ... work ethic displayed by a Zimbabwean workforce soldiering on out of a sense of a ...
- Flushing away billions 23 Jul 2008 06:11 GMT
... the all-conquering Malawian kwacha and even the Sierra Leone leone. In January, a Z$10-million note was ... work ethic displayed by a Zimbabwean workforce soldiering on out of a sense of a ...
- Karadzic a Big Win for Hague Cops 23 Jul 2008 05:24 GMT
... in handcuffs, decked out in his camouflage military attire or in one of his trademark ... 2003 for savage crimes carried out in Sierra Leone — including the arming and training of the child soldiers who hacked off limbs. After the democratically ...
- Genocide Probe Mission Heads to Country 23 Jul 2008 04:49 GMT
... big picture. "When a large institution, an army or a government, creates a policy to commit violence, a ... investigator for Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone stated that his commission's detailed understanding of ...
- Q&A: arrest of Radovan Karadzic 23 Jul 2008 00:13 GMT
... large – led by the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic The court plans to shut ... has inspired similar tribunals for Rwanda and Sierra Leone and the creation of the world’s first international ...
- War criminals still at large... 22 Jul 2008 23:54 GMT
... man, Ratko Mladic was the Bosnian Serb military commander. Mladic, 65, is accused of conspiring ... Ntaganda, 35, is accused of conscripting child soldiers and taking part in FPLC attacks in ... role in the civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone. His presidency ended in 2003 and he is ...
- Suspect to face war tribunal within days 22 Jul 2008 23:54 GMT
... to prosecute war criminals from Rwanda and Sierra Leone. But allegations of war crimes made since ... to grant a blanket immunity to US soldiers taking part in peace-keeping missions. ...
- Q&A: arrest of Radovan Karadizic 22 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
... large – led by the Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic The court plans to shut ... has inspired similar tribunals for Rwanda and Sierra Leone and the creation of the world’s first international ...
- Nigeria: Genocide Probe Mission Heads to Country 22 Jul 2008 13:17 GMT
... big picture. "When a large institution, an army or a government, creates a policy to commit violence, a ... investigator for Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone stated that his commission's detailed understanding of ...
- AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - Cocaine: a threat to fragile local establishments from Guinea Bissau to Sierra Leone 22 Jul 2008 12:16 GMT
... fragile local establishments from Guinea Bissau to Sierra Leone Bissau (Agenzia Fides) The confiscation of over ... fact that a division of the local military had surrounded the plane immediately following its ... argument arose between the police and military soldiers and the event almost became an armed ...
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