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Bush,
Nigeria leader discuss exiled leader
WASHINGTON
- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday
defended his country's extension of political asylum to former
Liberian President Charles Taylor, while expressing hope after a
meeting with President Bush that some arrangement could be reached
to assure that justice is served.
Bush
Is Pressed to Help Bring Exiled Liberian Leader to Justice
WASHINGTON, May 5 - The administration took a
cautious stance today on the deposed Liberian leader Charles Taylor,
pledging to help bring him to justice for war crimes but refusing to
say whether President Bush would push to have him expelled from
Nigeria, where he has been sheltered.
Press
Release - by Liberian Mandingoes Union in Israel
We are shocked and disappointed with news
coming out of our country, Liberia with respect to the intentional
and systematic denial of our people (mandingoes) from exercising
their constitutional rights to participate in the voters
registration that is currently ongoing in the country.
However, it must categorically be made cleared to the voter
registrars that any attempt to silent or deny our people their
constitutional rights will be unacceptable and will resort to a
complete resistance in any cost and we are financially capable to do
anything possible to redeem the rights ,prides and dignities of our
people..
It Appears
That the War is Far From Over(Editorial)
When Charles Taylor was forced to flee the
country in 2003 as a result of the military pressure from LURD and
MODEL, Liberians celebrated and hoped that peace had finally come.
But the reality on the ground since then suggests that the war is
far from over. Though the guns are silent, some of the main causes
of the war are present in our society.
So
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Finally Confesses To Funding The Killing Of
Liberians: Can We Forgive Her?
 In
what commentators consider a sad day in her political campaign,
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf recently admitted at a political gathering in
Minnesota, USA, that she did support Charles Taylor’s NPFL’s
insurrection which killed at least 200,0000 Liberians. Sirleaf’s
support for Taylor has been a hot political issue and dogged her
during the 1997 elections when she ran against Taylor, but even then
she skillfully evaded the question.
US
Lawmakers: Nigeria Must Send Former Liberian President Taylor ...
The U.S. House of Representatives is calling
on the government of Nigeria to turn former Liberian president
Charles Taylor over to the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
Approval of a resolution comes ahead of a scheduled meeting between
Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo and President Bush later this
week, and amid the latest comments by the chief prosecutor of the
war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone about Mr. Taylor's activities.
Nimbaians
Advocate More Representation, Repatriate Several Citizens to
Register
In their quest to be fully represented in the National Legislature,
Nimba County citizens through a committee has started repatriating
their kinsmen home in order to register for the October special
Legislative and Presidential Elections.
LIBERIA:
UNMIL investigating alleged sexual misconduct by ...
Allegations of sexual misconduct by UN
peacekeepers serving in Liberia have been substantiated in four
incidents and investigations launched, the United Nations Mission in
Liberia (UNMIL) told IRIN on Tuesday.
WEST
AFRICA: Taylor will continue to destabilise region until he's ...
Exiled Liberian president, Charles
Taylor, will remain a threat to President Lansana Conte of Guinea
and the entire West Africa region until he is brought before the
UN-backed Special Court for war crimes in Sierra Leone, said the
Court's chief prosecutor David Crane.
Poll
threat in northern Liberia
A lack of security is threatening the voter registration
process in former rebel areas in northern Liberia. Election workers
say they have been powerless to stop hundreds of Guineans
registering for October's polls after recieving a number of threats.
Taylor
plots to kill Guinea leader-US prosecutor
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is
still plotting to kill Guinea's leader and regional arch-enemy
Lansana Conte after failing in a bid to assassinate him in January,
a top U.S. war crimes prosecutor said
In
Defense of “Illiterate” Liberians (part III)
The recent blasé All-Liberian Conferences
justifies the argument that miseducated Liberians are
anti-democrats. The organizing rampaging, backdoor politricking, and
belligerence demonstrated by the separation of the various actors’
iniquitous personification of the overall objectives of such noble
project reflect the cries of our suffering people:
Taylor
'behind Guinea coup plot'
Liberia's former leader Charles Taylor was behind January's
coup attempt in Guinea, says the chief prosecutor of Sierra Leone's
war crimes tribunal. David Crane, who wants Mr Taylor to face
trial for alleged crimes during Sierra's Leone civil war, said the
information came from several sources.
An
Application for Apology
We who are of tribal lineage would not be too far from the truth if
we claimed ignorance as an excuse for some of our own breaches. But
we can’’t do that because before we heard about the Geneva
Convention we already had the Pallipo Convention, the Bassa Treaty,
and the Dodee Covenant that forbade one tribe from spilling the
blood of the citizens of its treaty partners.
UN
Liberia envoy bemoans mandate
The UN's peacekeeping force in Liberia would
have made more progress with a stronger mandate, its outgoing head
of mission says.
LIBERIA:
UN chief Jacques Klein departs suddenly, saying much ...
The head of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Jacques Paul
Klein, announced his immediate departure from Liberia on Friday,
saying he regretted leaving before the job was done. "I have
regret in leaving Liberia at this time ...so much still needs to be
done," said Klein at a special farewell ceremony in the capital
Monrovia that marked the end of his time as the UN Secretary
General's Special Representative to Liberia.
UN
confirms sex abuse by peacekeepers in Liberia
The United Nations is pressing ahead with a
crackdown on sexual misconduct by peacekeepers in Liberia after
finding that some allegations leveled so far were true, a U.N.
spokesman said on Friday.
Probe
finds women abused in Liberia
U.N. peacekeepers sexually abused and exploited local women
and girls in Liberia, a U.N. spokesman said yesterday. Stephane
Dujarric said a preliminary investigation by the U.N. mission in
Liberia indicated that some allegations could be substantiated while
others could not.
United
States Sailor Praises Cultural Diversity In The US Military
The Liberian writer and an active duty member in the United
States Navy observes that peoples’ ability to find common ground
depends largely on their willingness to coexist despite their
cultural differences. Nvasekie Konneh sees acceptance and
celebration of cultural diversity in the military as an important
factor for the strength and greatness of the US military.
Chief
of UN Mission in Liberia leaves post this week
New York, Apr 28 2005 5:00PM - With his
contract expiring this week, the head of the United Nations
peacekeeping mission in Liberia, Jacques Paul Klein, is due to leave
his post and be replaced by one of his deputies, a UN spokesman said
today.
Charles
Taylor 'still meddling'
Washington - Eight influential United States senators on Thursday
urged US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to push for the
handover of former Liberian president Charles Taylor to a special
tribunal so he can be tried for alleged war crimes.
UN
concern over Liberia diamonds
 There
has been a big recent increase in mining for diamonds in Liberia
which could be exported illegally, United Nations officials have
told the BBC.
Although exploring for diamonds is not illegal in Liberia, UN
sanctions ban their export because of fears that revenue could be
used to buy weapons.
Bush
nominates new ambassador to Liberia ...
Donald E. Booth, a career member of the senior
foreign service from Virginia, was nominated to be ambassador to
Liberia. Booth directs an office at the State Department's Bureau of
International Organization Affairs. He previously was director of
the State Department's office of West African affairs and deputy
director of the office of Southern African Affairs. He earned his
bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and master's degrees
from Boston University and the National War College.
Mandingoes
Deny To Register
The ongoing
voters’ registration exercise designed to take down the names of
Liberians who will cast their ballots in the ensuing presidential
and legislative elections appears to be causing stir with members of
the Mandingo ethnic tribe crying foul.
LIBERIA:
Former rebel leader to run for president
 MONROVIA,
27 Apr 2005 (IRIN) - The leader of Liberia’s one-time main rebel
group, Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)
Sekou Conneh, told IRIN on Wednesday that under pressure from former
fighters, he will stand as president in landmark October polls.
Voter
Registration Low In Liberia ...
Liberians continue to register for presidential and parliamentary
elections scheduled for October. Although registration turnout in
Liberia's capital Monrovia has been low, the U.N. refugee agency
says displaced Liberians are eagerly registering in camps, in order
to vote when they go back to their home counties.
LIBERIA:
People start registering for first post-war elections but ...
MONROVIA, 25 April (IRIN) - Liberia
began to register voters on Monday for elections in October that are
due to set the seal on national reconciliation after a 14-year civil
war.
The
short road home to Lofa county
BAIDU, Sierra Leone, April 26
(UNHCR) – The road home for Liberian refugees in Sierra Leone just
got a whole lot shorter. Starting this week, UNHCR is repatriating
refugees to Lofa county through a more direct route that will more
than halve the travelling time to Liberia's largest area of return.
LATE
PRESIDENT’S SON QUESTIONS NTGL OVER FIRESTONE CONTRACTS, DECRIES
RAMPANT CORRUPTION
Son of the late Liberian
President, William V. S. Tubman, William V.S. Tubman, Jr., says he
question the authority of the Charles Gyude Bryant’s Government to
commit future government to long term contractual agreements
especially the Firestone Contract and other contractual agreements
that are being awarded to individuals and companies in the Freeport
of Monrovia.
Peace & Unity From The
Islamic Perspective
All
the major religions of the world have one basic principle and that
is to promote the values of peace and unity among mankind. There
should be no doubt that love, peace, kindness and mercy are the
divine bounties and blessings, without which mankind could not have
survived and, therefore, it is rather inevitable and indispensable
for us to revert to the divine guidance and teachings so as to be
able to translate the dream of a peaceful world into a reality.
ELLEN
APOLOGIZES FOR HER "LEVEL THE MANSION WE WILL REBUILD IT"
COMMENT
 She has
been quoted by many people to have said that, “Burn Monrovia,
we will rebuilt it.” Responding to a question from some Liberians
in Philadelphia during the town hall meeting, she said
that she did not say "burn Monrovia." She clarified
that she only said "we will rebuild the Mansion if it is
broken.” In a very moody expression, she expressed regret and
publicly apologized. “I apologize. It was a stupid statement. We
all make mistake sometime.” She lamented.
AFRICAN
RELIGIOUS LEADERS WANT TAYLOR TRAIL HELD
West Africa Inter-religious group, from Ghana, Sierra,
Guinea, Ivory Coast and Liberia have begun serious negotiation with
Nigeria on the possible arrest and repatriation of Liberia’s
former President, Charles Taylor to face trail In Freetown, Sierra
Leone.
In a statement delivered recently in Monrovia, the group expressed
concern about Nigeria’s delay in fulfilling promises made to hand
over Taylor to the Court in Sierra Leone might have a serious
consequence on the peace process in the sub-region.
Making
Sense of the Ellen Speech, “Liberia: The Restoration of Our Nation¨
Before the just
ended All Liberian National Conference in Columbia, Maryland, there
were criticisms in some quarters regarding the selection of
presidential candidate, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, as the keynote
speaker. Many argue that her selection was politically
motivated, and that it gave her an unfair advantage
over other candidates
Liberia:
UNMIL Humanitarian Situation Report No. 7
UNAIDS estimates the HIV prevalence rate in Liberia at 5.9
percent of the adult population, but that figure dates from 2003
when an upsurge in fighting at the ...
WEAH’S
DEGREE SCANDAL DEEPENS
 The
University degree scandal involving one of Liberia’s leading
presidential aspirants, George Weah, has taken a new turn with a
renowned University professor describing his diploma as fake, while
his proposed political party, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC)
fires back, defending that the candidate’s ‘degree’ is
genuine.
In
an unsigned press release dated April 15, 2005 emailed to this
writer, CDC claimed that the presidential hopeful “obtained a
bachelor degree in sports management from Parkwood University via
online training and that the information contained on the website (friendsofgeorgeweah.com)
is accurate and enjoys the full backing of both Ambassador (Weah)
and his political team.”
Police
Ask for Help Finding Gunman who Killed Marine
 Minneapolis
police are trying to find the person who randomly shot and killed a
man earlier this month. On Tuesday, they announced a $10,000 reward
in the case.Eric Dunbar served in the Marines after immigrating to
the United States in the early 1990’s. Tuesday, his family fought
back tears as they pleaded for help in finding his killer.
Richie Dunbar, Eric’s brother, says the family needs an arrest to
heal, “It'll give us some kind of closure to know that person is
locked up and can't harm anymore families.”
Viewpoint:
Liberia confronts growing illiteracy
MONROVIA, Liberia -- The education sector of Liberia is still in a
state of disrepair despite efforts being made by state and non-state
actors to reverse the situation and increase the human resource base
of the country. Indeed, the worsening situation in the education
sector is worrying and a bad omen for a country and people that have
lagged behind for so long. The acute shortage of teachers has long
haunted and undermined efforts to standardize the nation's education
sector.
H'RIGHTS
COMMISSION ACCUSES UNMIL FOR EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS: Says It is
Disappointed In NTGL
The NTGL recently set up Independent National Commission on Humnan
yesterday released its reports on human rights in Liberia and has
accused the United Nations in Liberia (UNMIL) for extral-judicial
killings.
UNHCR
to start informing Liberian refugees on election process
MONROVIA, April 20 (UNHCR) – Liberian refugees will now
have more time – and information – to vote with their feet,
thanks to a UNHCR-negotiated extension of the registration deadline
for the October election, and an information campaign set to start
this week.
Liberia:
Ex-fighters making money from latex refuse to leave
KLAY, 19 Apr 2005 (IRIN) - Several hundred former rebel
fighters are still squatting on Liberia's second largest rubber
plantation nearly two years after the civil war ended. They say they
will refuse to leave until the UN-backed transitional authorities
make good on pledges to provide them with full package of benefits
due to ex-combatants.
Donors
present unique report on Internally Displaced Persons
More than 24 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) lack
satisfactory judicial protection, a comprehensive
report prepared by ten donor organisations reveals. The report
is the first of its kind and serves as a good starting point for
improving the situation for IDPs. "This problem has been known
for some time, but now donor organisations are seeing how widespread
the gaps are from an IDP perspective,"
Liberia
- IOM begins returns to Lofa county
On 18 April, IOM began providing return assistance to
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who wish to return to their
places of origin in Lofa County, which lies in the forested
northwest tip of Liberia bordering Guinea and Sierra Leone. The
first IOM convoy transporting some 150 returnees left Miamu camps in
Totota, Bong County for the eight-hour drive to Voinjama, the main
town in Lofa County.
Minneapolis
shooting victim apparently hit by mistake
Three
brothers from Coon Rapids arrived at a south Minneapolis house for a
barbecue about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, but the gathering was already
over.
 "So,
we sat around on the front lawn, talking and telling jokes like we
always do," said Richie Dunbar, 21. Minutes later, shots rang
out across the street. The brothers and two friends ran for Dunbar's
car, parked a few doors away in the 3700 block of Oakland Av. S.
After piling in, Dunbar looked around and didn't see his older
brother, Richmond Eric Dunbar, 29.
"I
didn't care if it was firecrackers or shots, I got out to find
Eric," Dunbar said. "I ran to the house and saw him on the
sidewalk with a gunshot wound in his head."
LIBERIA:
No money to finance AIDS survey, no treatment outside Monrovia
MONROVIA, 18 Apr 2005 (IRIN) - Health officials know that AIDS is a
serious problem in Liberia, but the government has no money to
conduct a proper HIV prevalence survey and specialist treatment for
the disease is only available in the capital, Monrovia.
Travel
Ban Hits Dweh, Four Others
 The
United Nations Security Council has added the names of five more
Liberians on its list of persons affected by the travel ban on
Liberia. According to a dispatch on the update of the listing, the
new names placed on the travel ban include that of suspended House
Speaker George Dweh and three former generals of the disbanded rebel
movement Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy as well
as one former General of the disbanded rebel group, Movement for
Democracy in Liberia (MODEL).
Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf’s Statement At The All Liberian Conference- April
14, 2005
 And
we all know insurgency capped in military terms is VIOLENT! And
Taylor’s offensive was worse than history can recall. Mr. Taylor
and others claimed it was “exhaustion” over President Doe’s
“dictatorship” that led them to resort to VIOLENCE. Whether or
not this is true depends on where Taylor stands to date, where the
nation is situated currently and what Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf did
to bring the nation to its current state.
Mrs. Sirleaf, as she admits, supported Taylor VIOLENCE! And when she
did, in fact and in reality, she sanctioned and resorted to VIOLENCE
as means to explain her differences with President Doe and his
government.
Beware
Of Brumskine’s Christian Fundementalist Agenda
 Almost
ten years ago, Cllr. Charles Brumskine made an emotional appeal
along this fundamentalist line when he served as a keynote speaker
at a graduation ceremony on the main campus of the Zion Community
College, for which he received a thunderous applaud from the
emotionally charged audience. I was in the audience. Below is a
portion of the article I had written back then which was meant for
publication in the local dailies. For whatever reason, the article
was not published. I was looking through my papers recently and came
across the unpublished article. Since this is an election season and
Cllr. Brumskine happens to be a presidential candidate, I deem it
necessary to bring the article out at this time.
“I
Will Not Sell Liberia”…Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
One
of the leading contenders in the October general elections says she
will not accept monetary and ‘in kind’ contributions of goods
and services towards her campaign from businesses and individuals
who expect something in return.
Ellen:
"Have I done the most for our country?"
Bell: "No, ma’am! You could have. But decided not to. I draw
inference from your most recent interview with the Daily Observer
News Magazine at which time you officially admitted supporting Mr.
Charles Taylor in his insurgency which took the lives of innocent
men, women and children. According to you in the interview, he
(Taylor) “betrayed” you. Whatever the truth may be, I find it
difficult to comprehend that you did not know, having been in
politics and international relations for ever so long, that building
a military offensive is easy then to disengage it. How could you not
know that a military approach to political problems mostly ends up
in a generalized anarchy of violence as indicated in peace records
of the UN?"
Beware
Of Brumskine’s Christian Fundementalist Agenda
The idea that Liberia “was founded on Christian principle” has
been proclaimed from many pulpits across the country. This is
something very fundamental to the belief of many Christian Liberians
and they don’t hesitate to say it. To non-Christian Liberians, who
for the most part are Moslems, this notion is nothing short of
religious bigotry.
Liberia
Represented at US Congressional
Dr. James Teah Tarpeh led a high-power delegation of the
All-Liberian National Conference for Peace, Reform and
Reconciliation to attend the US Congressional African Seminar Series
in the Rayburn building at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
CAN
GEORGE WEAH REALLY FIGHT CORRUPTION OR IS HE TOO NICE TO BE
PRESIDENT? WE SHALL SEE.
Liberia’s soccer legend turned politician, George Oppong Weah,
joined the race for the Liberian presidency in November 2004 after
being petitioned by a group of Liberians who believe that he is
their only HOPE to a decent future.
TRIBAL
LEADERS, OTHERS ACCUSED BRYANT OF 'WITCH-HUNTING'
According to a local daily, The Liberian Diaspora, the traditional
leaders expressed their disappointment when they met recently with
the Chairman of the NDDRRC, Dr. Moses Jarbo.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 We
the family of the late Dr. Harry Fumba Moniba wish to sincerely
thank all relatives, friends, neighbors and compatriots for their
many beautiful flowers, cards, generous donations, kind words and
messages of condolence and sympathy we received during our
bereavement on the sudden loss of the former Vice President of
Liberia.
ALNC-PRR,
Inc. Represents Liberia At
April 14, 2005, Washington, DC. Taking advantage of its recently
gained international recognition after its successful All Liberian
conference, the Chairman of the All-Liberian National Conference For
Peace, Reforms and Reconciliation, or ALNC-PRR, Inc., Dr. James
Tarpeh, headed a high power delegation to Capitol Hill in
Washington, DC. to attend the US Congressional African Seminar
Series in the Rayburn building at the US Capitol.
Liberian
says justice remains elusive
Corruption is so
rampant in the tiny west African nation of Liberia that people say
the easiest way to wealth is a government job. But lawyer Jerome
Verdier has a different vision for his country. He wants
transparency and the rule of law to replace the fraud, internal
strife and civil war that have torn Liberia apart for the past 15
years.
Well
Done, Amb. Blaney
HE CALLED ON the candidates to pledge publicly that they and their
respective parties will not attempt to buy votes during the
elections. Equally, he called upon voters not to sell their votes to
any candidate and urged the candidates to campaign on the basis of
competing ideas and programs on how best to move Liberia forward for
the benefit of all Liberians.
In
Defense of “Illiterate” Liberians (Part II)
The
force and organization which attaches objection to citizen’s rule
whenever an election result is announced in Liberia demonstrates
that our political elites (Rice Politicians), Sawyer’s, Ellen’s,
Fahnbulleh’s ECT does not believe in democracy. Instead they
always proffer an already tested and failed political theory urging
a power sharing “national conference” to remedy our quest for a
legitimate state.
A CLASH OF
CULTURES IN SANKAWULO’S NEW NOVEL (BOOK REVIEW)
 “Sundown
At Dawn, A Liberian Odyssey,” is by far Professor Sankawulo’s
most important work, in terms of the issues it touches, namely, the
clash of African and western cultures, and political protest against
the system of injustice.
The
All-Ellen National Conference: How Can and Event Unify Liberia When
One Presidential Candidate is The Focus?
Albeit an effort to unite Liberians, all that it really will serve
to do is advance the political causes of Liberian Presidential
Candidate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; it is for this reason that the
conference should be called The All-Ellen National Conference...
TROUBLE
MAKERS STILL AROUND
The United States Ambassador accredited to Liberia, John William
Blaney has disclosed that there are still remain individuals and
groups of Liberians who care nothing about the welfare of the people
of Liberia, but rather engaged in "dubious deeds to only
satisfy their whims and caprices to the detriment of the Liberian
people".
Report:
Disarmed African Fighters Lured ...
AP
via ABCNEWS.com
MONROVIA, Liberia Apr 13, 2005 Thousands of
fighters recently disarmed from West African civil wars are being
recruited into emerging regional conflicts, lured by promises of pay
and looting after failed efforts to return them to civilian life,
human rights activists said Wednesday. Former fighters from Liberia,
Congo, Rwanda and Sierra Leone have told The Associated Press their
economic situations have left them with few options.
COTE
D IVOIRE-LIBERIA: Child-soldier ring investigated amid ...
More and more children are being drawn into this cycle of warfare
today, notably to Guinea to fight for or against the government of
President Lansana Conte, and to Cote d'Ivoire, where rebels
occupying the north of the country are locked in conflict with
President Laurent Gbagbo, who controls the south.
ALNC:
Ringing The Same Bell With Two Different Hammers
It’s been quite some time since Liberians in certain quarters
engaged each other in a quarrel to establish a steering committee
charged with the responsibility to pave the path for the 2005 All
Liberian National Conference (ALNC).
LIBERIA:
Voter registration extended for returning refugees
MONROVIA, 12 Apr 2005 (IRIN) - Liberia's National Elections
Commission is extending voter registration by two weeks in the
country’s 11 October general and presidential elections to allow
eligible refugees who return home to participate, the commission
chairwoman told IRIN on Tuesday.
Special
Statement from the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the
All-Liberian National Conference, Inc
Several months ago, Liberians of the Diaspora and from Liberian
organizations in the Diaspora, concerned about the trend of events
in Liberia, the unresolved challenges facing the nation, the issues
that had led us to the path of war, and the need to find solutions
to those challenges and issues, and thereby avoid a reoccurrence of
the events that led the Liberian people to war with themselves.....
Mrs.
Mabana Konneh
The
Konneh family announces with deepest regret the passing of their
wife, mother, aunt, and sister. Mabana Konneh.
Can't
They All Get Along? (Editorial)
In
the heat of the moment during the famous Los Angeles riot, the man
at the center of the storm, Rodney King, said, "Can't we all
get along?" As Liberian politicians fight to show who has the
right to call itself "the
All Liberian Conference," we are inclined to ask, "Can't
they all get along?"
WEAH
GETS BOGUS DEGREE?
In his curriculum vitae posted recently on the friends-of-George-Weah
website, the candidate is said to have obtained his Bachelor of Arts
degree in Sports Management from the
Parkwood
University
in
London
,
England
Liberia:
African Union Special Envoy visits internally displaced ...
The Special Envoy of the African Union (AU) for Liberia, Ambassador
Ramtane Lamamra, has commended internally displaced persons (IDPs)
for demonstrating willingness to return to their towns and villages
and assist in rebuilding their country and for taking responsibility
for their future.
Charles
Taylor’s Bush Mansion Discovered (Forum)
When he sounded his revolutionary bell under the banner of the
National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), he was not hanging in
the air nor sitting upon branches of trees calling and evoking pro-Quiwonkpa
sentiment aimed at winning the crusaders who galloped for spears,
stones, machetes, guns, and other warlike materials but it was right
in this house from which he would blow his bugle.
Bush
Urged to Take Action on Ex-Dictator
WASHINGTON -- At a time that President Bush says he is taking a
strong stand against tyranny, some members of Congress say he is
doing little to bring one of the world's most notorious dictators to
justice.
COTE
D IVOIRE: Rebels blame deserters for reported clash with Guinean
army ...
ABIDJAN, 8 April (IRIN) - Cote d'Ivoire's New Forces rebel movement
said on Friday that none of its fighters had been involved in a
reported clash with Guinean soldiers on the western border, but it
admitted that rebel deserters may have been responsible for the
incident.
UN-backed
forum to look at community re-integration for West African
ex-combatants ...
United
Nations
7 April 2005 – Seeking to avoid
renewed violence in West Africa, a United Nations-backed meeting
tomorrow is set to look at new approaches to rehabilitating and
re-integrating some 200,000 former combatants in the region.
Clash
on Ivory Coast, Guinea border - sources
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's army clashed with Ivory Coast rebels on
Thursday near the border between the two countries, killing one
insurgent and injuring another, military sources on both sides of
the frontier said on Friday.
LIBERIA:
Former soldiers who fled to Sierra Leone start coming home
BO WATERSIDE , 7 Apr 2005 (IRIN) - The first batch of Liberian
government soldiers who fled into Sierra Leone during the latter
stages of the country's civil war has returned home.
After
Guus, Who's Next?
Guus van Kouwenhoven is not your average guy who will enter a
country to do business the right way. His line of business - a
criminal empire exploited the Liberian civil war for selfish
financial gains, and played his part well until he was arrested
recently in the Netherlands for war crimes.
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