Latest Sierra Leone United Nations News
- Guinea travel advice 23 Jul 2008 18:56 GMT
... border areas in Liberia (where a large UN peacekeeping force is still in place). We also ... 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
... French director shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers In ... Children and Armed Conflict, Special Court for Sierra Leone prosecutor Steven Rapp and France’s UN Ambassador Jean-Maurice ... movie, complete with gun-wielding teenagers, while a United Nations arms embargo was in place. The French ...
- Sierra Leone: Artisanal Fishing At Risk 23 Jul 2008 14:30 GMT
... is a centre of artisanal fishing in Sierra Leone, but its future and the future of all ... the food and agricultural organization of the United Nations, artisanal fishing employs 30,000 full time and ... marks, covering them with tarpaulins. When they run into the artisanal fishermen, they run away," ...
- Taylor accused of starving Nigerian journalists to death 23 Jul 2008 11:52 GMT
... against humanity, on his role in fueling the decade-long civil war in the neighbouring Sierra Leone. For security reasons, the UN Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone moved the former Liberian leader to the Hague for trial. ...
- Leone pledges cocaine crackdown 23 Jul 2008 09:54 GMT
... point to smuggle cocaine to Europe, the UN says. Fifty-eight people are being held over the ... the seizure of the plane, reports say. Sierra Leone has a weak law on narcotics that has ...
- Author, Peace Activist Col. Ann Wright To Speak at Dallas on Wednesday, July 23 23 Jul 2008 08:49 GMT
... and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State ... stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a ...
- Liberia: Uball Launches Bushrod Island Branch 23 Jul 2008 04:52 GMT
... Sigma Building opposite the City Builders on UN Drive in Monrovia. The Central Bank of Liberia ... that UBA has been issued licenses in Sierra Leone, Boukina Faso, Guinea, and Mali as well as ...
- Genocide Probe Mission Heads to Country 23 Jul 2008 04:49 GMT
... United States based organisation that helps the United Nations (UN) to uncover cases of human rights abuses ... investigator for Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone stated that his commission's detailed understanding of the ...
- Q&A: arrest of Radovan Karadzic 23 Jul 2008 00:13 GMT
... Dr Karadzic will be taken to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he ... 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
... in 2005 following the murder of nine UN peacekeepers, and again on a charge of enlisting ... 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
... war. Karadzic will be housed in the United Nations detention unit, a separate wing of Scheveningen ... his life. The tribunal, established by the UN Security Council in May 1993, was the ... to prosecute war criminals from Rwanda and Sierra Leone. But allegations of war crimes made since July ...
- Q&A: arrest of Radovan Karadizic 22 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
... Dr Karadzic will be taken to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where he ... has inspired similar tribunals for Rwanda and Sierra Leone and the creation of the world’s first international ...
- Kemal Saïki - the Force of a Spokesperson in His Work is His Credibility 22 Jul 2008 20:31 GMT
... director of Public Information for UNAMID, the UN mission in Darfur, Sudan. In an interview ... then at the African Development Bank, the United Nations peacekeeping missions in Sierra Leone and Burundi and finally with MONUC in the ...
- SLeone to tighten drug laws 22 Jul 2008 17:12 GMT
... Freetown - Sierra Leone President Enrest Koroma announced urgent plans on Tuesday ... bill drafted with the assistance of the UN Office on Drug Control to strengthen the legislative ...
- Sierra Leone ready to tighten drug laws 22 Jul 2008 16:49 GMT
... Politics | Economy - Development | Society Sierra Leone ready to tighten drug laws President Koroma's ... bill drafted with the assistance of the UN Office on Drug Control to strengthen the ... sacred cows in the treatment of suspects." Sierra Leonean leader said he had sought technical support ...
- Nigeria: Genocide Probe Mission Heads to Country 22 Jul 2008 13:17 GMT
... United States based organisation that helps the United Nations (UN) to uncover cases of human rights abuses ... investigator for Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sierra Leone stated that his commission's detailed understanding of the ...
- Sierra Leone:: Salone Refugees to Lose Status 22 Jul 2008 12:55 GMT
... Sierra Leoneans who fled their country following the 1991 ... received the greatest number of people fleeing Sierra Leone in the 1990s, when more than 600,000 ... no longer a good reason why a Sierra Leonean should be a refugee in another country," ...
- Sierra Leone: Salone Refugees to Lose Status 22 Jul 2008 12:55 GMT
... Sierra Leoneans who fled their country following the 1991 ... received the greatest number of people fleeing Sierra Leone in the 1990s, when more than 600,000 ... no longer a good reason why a Sierra Leonean should be a refugee in another country," ...
- Salone Refugees to Lose Status 22 Jul 2008 12:55 GMT
... Sierra Leoneans who fled their country following the 1991 ... received the greatest number of people fleeing Sierra Leone in the 1990s, when more than 600,000 ... no longer a good reason why a Sierra Leonean should be a refugee in another country," ...
- S Leone pledges cocaine crackdown 22 Jul 2008 11:16 GMT
... South Americans after a seizure of cocaine Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has said he ... point to smuggle cocaine to Europe, the UN says. Fifty-eight people are being held over the ...
- A dangerous fiction 22 Jul 2008 09:54 GMT
... seizure of 700kg of pure cocaine at Sierra Leone's main airport could have passed for an ... the opium trade. Now, according to the UN drugs tsar, Antonio Maria Costa, the Taliban is ...
- Sierra Leone: Flood Water Brings Diseases 22 Jul 2008 09:30 GMT
... in the Kroo Bay community of the Sierra Leone capital Freetown local medical official Amadou Kandor says ... to the country ranking last in the UN Development Programme annual survey of human development. Save ...
- Sudan president expected to face war crime charges 22 Jul 2008 08:16 GMT
... July 11, 2008 at 5:45 PM EDT UNITED NATIONS — The prosecutor of the world's first ... humanity and genocide in Darfur, a move UN diplomats warned could bring a backlash from ... The Hague for crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone. The charges could bring reprisals from Sudan's government, ...
- Law agencies close in on vast drug ring 22 Jul 2008 05:56 GMT
... six international law enforcement agencies are helping Sierra Leonean police investigate a drug smuggling ring that is ... der Schlenburg, head of UN operations in Sierra Leone, Mr Jambawai has been briefed by UN ... said in an interview. He said the United Nations and Imatt received intelligence reports that the ...
- Ethiopia: Country Needs 25 Years to Join Group of Middle Income Countries 22 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... People's Democratic Republic, Maldives, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Sierra Leone and Sudan. Other African countries in this group ... to reaching the point." Other African countries UN labels on a "promising track" include Sudan, ... able to achieve the first of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): halving the proportion ...
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