Sierra Leone
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United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UN-Peacebuilding)
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Tod eines Massenmörders (30.07.2003)
(Quelle: NZZ) Sankoh war mitverantwortlich für einen der grausamsten Guerillakriege Afrikas. Das von der Uno unterstützte Sondertribunal für Sierra Leone klagte ihn deshalb wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit an.
Reactions to the Death of Foday Sankoh (30.07.2003)
(Quelle: Sierra Leone News) Foday Saybana Sankoh, the once-feared rebel leader who plunged his country into a decade of brutal civil war, died in hospital late Tuesday of natural causes. He was 65. Sankoh had been in detention since May 2000, after his bodyguards opened fire on a crowd of protesters outside his Freetown home.
Special Court keeps Foday Sankoh and Alex Tamba Brima in Jail (23.07.2003)
(Quelle: Irinnews) Judge Benjamin Itoe of Cameroon dismissed as 'unwarranted and without substance' a request by Sankoh's lawyers for a 'stay of proceedings' against the former leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel movement until the Court had completed a full psychiatric and physiological examination of the accused. He also rejected an application for bail by Brima, who served on the military junta headed by Johnny Paul Koroma, which ruled Sierra Leone from 1997 until its removal by an international intervention force in 1998.
Child Soldier Rehabilitation Program at Risk (22.07.2003)
(Quelle: UN-News) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that the future of thousands of Sierra Leonean children who once fought one of the world’s most vicious civil wars has now been thrown into doubt by a shortfall in funding for on-going education re-integration programmes. The agency’s two-year long educational courses for former child soldiers in Sierra Leone had scored many notable successes before donor support began to dwindle.
UNAMSIL Withdrawal Process Slowed down (18.07.2003)
(Quelle: UN-News) Recognizing the continuing fragile security situation in Africa's Mano River region, the Security Council today approved Secretary-General Kofi Annan's recommendation for a modified, four-stage reduction in military strength of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMISL), which would culminate in complete withdrawal by December 2004. … He notes that much still needs to be done to strengthen the capacities of both the police and army, and to facilitate their effective presence in the areas being vacated by UNAMSIL.
Security Council Discusses UNAMSIL Withdrawal (14.07.2003)
(Quelle: UN-News) Members of the Security Council today agreed to 'respond quickly' to Secretary-General Kofi Annan's recent proposal for a modified, four-stage reduction in the military strength of the United Nations mission in Sierra Leone, the President of the 15-nation body said today. … That plan would address concerns about a more speedy withdrawal 'that neither the Sierra Leone police nor armed forces are expected to make such rapid progress as to have them assuming external and internal security responsibilities by mid-2004 without UNAMSIL support.'