And it is the example of Africans -- from Liberia to Mozambique to Sierra Leone -- that after the darkness of war, there can be a new day of peace and progress.
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It would have been "virtually impossible" for him to order anyone -- including the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), the rebel group in Sierra Leone -- to carry out such actions, Taylor said, because he was too occupied with running his own country.
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The rising problem of global obesity was driven home to me recently in - of all places - Sierra Leone.
She said female genital mutilation identifies one social group in Sierra Leone - women accepted by society as full adult women members - and therefore women outside this group are therefore a social group too.
It is the result of a public-private partnership between the Sierra Leone government and US-based nonprofit World Hope International along with its subsidiary FIRST STEP.
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The newly-secure, post-war Sierra Leone has attracted considerable foreign investment and the government has been credited with a big road-building programme.
International Alert, a London-based peace research group, tried the same for Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s.
In post-conflict Sierra Leone more than 70% of sexual violence cases seen by the International Rescue Committee were girls under 18, and more than a fifth of those were girls under the age of 11, the report says.
The union prohibited 50 carriers from Congo alone--yes, those jet-setting Congolese have 50 carriers--14 from Sierra Leone and seven airlines from Swaziland.
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In neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone, recently-ended wars have cost around half a million lives in 15 years and left millions beggared and bereaved.
Many say his main disadvantage is that, as the former military ruler of Sierra Leone from 1992-1996, he is associated with a deeply unpopular period before democracy.
This hardly fits with what the colonel has actually been doing: quietly channelling funds to rebels in West Africa, such as Charles Taylor, now president of Liberia, Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone and anti-government groups in Guinea.
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The only new mission that nearly got going was a small, low-risk British-sponsored one to Sierra Leone.
Within hours he was delivered to a United Nations-backed war-crimes court in Sierra Leone to face trial.
Even in the unlikely event of the outside world formulating a single co-ordinated policy towards Sierra Leone and Liberia, other fundamental problems remain.
Embarrassingly for him, Sierra Leone's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has now indicted several of the secretariat's senior people, accusing them of siphoning off donated funds.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush was able, time and time again, to cite specific international hot spots -- literally, from Sierra Leone to East Timor.
Gen Richards has extensive operational experience in East Timor, Sierra Leone, and first-hand knowledge of the challenges in Afghanistan, gained as commander of Nato coalition forces there between 2006 and 2007.
In Freetown, the smashed-up capital of Sierra Leone, where hotels charge New York prices for rooms and meals, another moneyed elite (both local and foreign) inflates the price of everything from toothpaste to bananas.
Most of the initial Guinean military effort was in this area, perhaps because it is relatively close to the capital, and this group has now been pushed well back across the border, with most of the fighting now taking place around Kambia, an RUF-held area inside Sierra Leone.
The opening weekend will kick-off with a bang with derbies across the country and it includes the biggest game in Sierra Leone as East End Lions meet arch-rivals Mighty Blackpool on Sunday.
As its marines flew out of Sierra Leone , Britain promised on-going military aid.
Sierra Leone must overcome a 1-0 deficit against Congo in Freetown or face almost three years without competitive international football.
Ms. CONTEH: Well, I have - when I went to Sierra Leone recently, I brought back a booklet that my father had put together.
None of the big global car-hire firms operates in Sierra Leone.
Mr Sankoh founded the RUF, which became notorious for mass rape, hacking off the hands, feet, ears and noses of thousands of civilians during a 10-year terror campaign in Sierra Leone.
The study authors note that the majority of people flying out of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are traveling to other low- or middle-income countries.
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The force's military impact in its first ten days was immense but since then, says Brigadier Richards, the real work has been on longer-term planning for a stable Sierra Leone.
Mr. JOHN BELLINGER (Legal Advisor, United States State Department): The ICC would not be trying Charles Taylor, they would simply be providing their facilities--their bricks and mortar--to the special court for Sierra Leone to try Charles Taylor.
In an effort to address these challenges and in order to foster effective post-conflict socio-economic rehabilitation, reconstruction, peace and development, the government of Sierra Leone adopted the National Education Action Plan (NEAP) through which extensive literacy and non-formal education programmes were initiated.
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