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Found 56 articles.
- Vol 44 No 22
- 07/11/2003
Taylor's shadow
There is a new government but no real peace and far too few peacekeepers
- Vol 44 No 16
- 08/08/2003
Winkling out Taylor
A post-war era may have begun to take shape in Accra as Taylor dug his heels in
- Vol 44 No 16
- 08/08/2003
See you in court?
The death in custody of Revolutionary United Front leader Foday Sankoh on 29 July is the latest blow to the United Nations-backed Special Court's efforts to bring those most responsible for the Sierra Leone conflict to justice. The court arrested him on 1...
- Vol 44 No 16
- 08/08/2003
Abandoned children
As Nigerian units redeploy to Liberia from United Nations' peacekeeping duties in Freetown, child protection agencies are warning that severe funding shortfalls for long-term rehabilitation of child soldiers mean that thousands of Sierra Leonean children ...
- Vol 44 No 15
- 25/07/2003
Fighting on
The indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas by the rebel Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) in the latest upsurge of fighting has removed any lingering hope that they might offer a viable alternative to President Charles Ghankay Ta...
- Vol 44 No 14
- 11/07/2003
Meltdown in Monrovia
Sending peacekeepers into the capital without a political plan could cause yet more chaos and killing
- Vol 44 No 13
- 27/06/2003
Weird scenes inside the gold-mine
Taylor has nowhere to run but the West hasn't got a plan yet
- Vol 44 No 13
- 27/06/2003
How the Ghana talks stalled
General Abdulsalami Abubakar appeared to have won the trust of all sides at the peace talks in Ghana. The Nigerian former ruler was on the verge of getting an agreement on a comprehensive peace framework and had set an end-June deadline for proposals for ...
- Vol 44 No 12
- 13/06/2003
Where next?
The Sierra Leone Special Court's indictment of President Charles Taylor leaves him little option but to fight to the death, potentially taking the thousands of Liberians who have crammed into Monrovia with him. The timing of the 4 June announcement was un...
- Vol 44 No 10
- 16/05/2003
Horse-trading, arms-trading
The new UN resolution misses an opportunity to tackle the regional conflict from all sides
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