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| | Sierra Leone News Archives - October 1999 - Sierra Leone Web |
 | | On Saturday morning, a diplomatic source close to the Sierra Leone government quoted RUF leader Corporal Foday Sankoh as saying his men in Magburaka and other areas where they had been widely dispersed had travelled to Makeni in connection with his visit to that city. | | | RUF rebels who overran Makeni earlier this month have taken hostage former President Joseph Saidu Momoh, his lawyer and acting APC leader Serry Kamal said at a press conference on Friday. | | | "I privately raised concerns with a very very senior member of the government as to the safety of Freetown should Okro Hill be disarmed before Makeni. |
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http://www.sierra-leone.org/slnews1099.html
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| | Khaleej Times Online |
| | A gleaming new branch of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank looks to be the only thing built since a peace accord was signed in January 2002, but stall keepers noted wryly that its vaults were likely empty as no one in Makeni had anything worth putting in the bank. | | | MAKENI, Sierra Leone - Peace rice equals hungry rice, said Fatimata Kabia as she sat outside a storefront in the inland Sierra Leone town of Makeni stacked with bags of the staple food imported from as far away as Pakistan and Thailand. | | | Makenis teeming marketplace was, during the 1990s, the best place in Sierra Leone to find all manner of electronic goods and equipment - looted by the rebels from convoys, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals themselves. |
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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/todaysfeatures/2004/March/todaysfeatures_March15.xml§ion=todaysfeatures
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| | Conflict resolution, prevention, and transformation: Search for Common Ground |
| | Makeni is the home of the opposition party, All People's Congress (APC), which governed Sierra Leone for 26 years. | | | Further exacerbating the situation, during Sierra Leone's ten-year civil war, the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) captured Makeni and made it their headquarters. | | | Makeni and Mile 91 are northern towns populated predominantly by Sierra Leone's minority ethnic group, the Temne. |
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http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/sierra/sierra_celtel.html
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| | ReliefWeb » Document Preview » IRIN Update 583 of events in West Africa |
| | Makeni is the gateway to north and north-eastern Sierra Leone, which have suffered from a lack of access to commercial and humanitarian assistance for much of the year. | | | On Friday, the Missionary News Agency (MISNA) reported clashes among rival groups along the road to Freetown near Lunsar, some 60 km west of Makeni, and said there was "an increasingly critical situation in northern Sierra Leone". | | | Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is to make a one-day visit to Freetown on 5 November for talks with his counterpart Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, news organisations reported Sierra Leone's state radio as saying on Thursday. |
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http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/c798cf4577962a82c125681c004b009f
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| | Watchmen Project - Letters for Youth |
| | Caritas Makeni does an excellent job for the children who were fighting as soldier during the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone. | | | Funds were raised by Dutch children and sent to two organizations in Sierra Leone, one of them is Caritas Makeni. | | | Luckily also a lot of the former child soldiers were given shelter by Caritas Makeni and others. |
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http://www.watchmen.nl.amnesty.org/nieuws.cfm
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| | Sierra Leone Reports |
| | The rehabilitation is carried out at a low-cost housing development provided by the government in the 1970s for low-income earners at Kissy, two miles from the coastal city of Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone. | | | This was the declaration released to MISNA by Ibrahim Andrew Sesay, Director of the diocesan Caritas of Makeni. | | | The humanitarian initiative was organised in Makeni (160 km from the capital, Freetown) by the diocesan Caritas, in collaboration with 'Memisa Holland', to meet the needs of the desperate civil population, devastated by the civil war. |
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http://www.parish-without-borders.net/global/sierra-l.htm
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| | Documentary Project for Refugee Youth : Interviews |
| | Makeni is actually a town in Sierra Leone and Freetown is the capital city. | | | OK let me ask you this question, when you was leaving your house in Makeni, the house that you was born and raise and the war came. | | | Ishmael: So from Makeni you travel to where? |
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http://www.global-action.org/refugee/interviews/alhaji.html
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| | Makeni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Makeni is the capital of the Northern Province of Sierra Leone. | | | It is known for its market and was known for its mosque until the Sierra Leone Civil War, when it became a base for the RUF. | | | See also Makeni, Zambia for the suburb of Lusaka. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makeni
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| | Executive Secretariat of National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration |
| | Also in the team were the Executive Secretary of the NCDDR, Dr Francis Kai-Kai and other senior officials of the NCDDR Secretariat; as well as the head of the DFID/ERT team in Sierra Leone, David Ede. | | | For example, the NCDDR is trying to arrange for a number of ex-combatants to join hands with the Sierra Leone Road Authority to rebuild and maintain roads all over the country, and with the Ministry of Health for environmental sanitation. | | | The NCDDR is currently supporting a first group of ex-combatants in formal education at institutions like the Fourah Bay College, Teacher Training Colleges in Bo and Makeni and two private computer training colleges plus a driving school in Freetown. |
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http://www.worldbank.org/afr/afth2/crrp/crrp_bulletin2-24.html
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| | anb400-e07 |
| | In the midst of Sierra Leones confused military scene, ever since the West African Intervention Force (ECOMOG) succeeded in restoring President Kabbah to power, Makeni has continued to change hands and in 1999 the RUF succeeded in capturing it. | | | The missionaries had transferred there in January this year because Kambia, in Sierra Leone, where they were working, had come under RUF control. | | | Bishop Biguzzi left Makeni for Freetown in 1997, when Makeni in the north was captured by soldiers loyal to the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC). |
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http://ospiti.peacelink.it/anb-bia/nr400/e07.html
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| | Sierra_Leone-CenterNet-Plan.doc |
| | Project Duration: 5 years Project Location: Learning Centers/ schools in the rural Lunsar, Makeni, Moyamba Magburaka, Kabala and Kono in Sierra Leone (These are all District headquarter towns in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone where there are no access for single computers even in offices). | | | The Makeni Town and its surrounding villages are now facing so many problems, which led to an increase in hardship and a reduction in the dignity of the inhabitants. | | | In Makeni 89.7% and 95.0% of youth in Binkolo and Gbendembu were unemployed. |
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http://www.worldcomputerexchange.org/partner_plans/Sierra_Leone-CenterNet-Plan.doc
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| | Sierra Leone: UN-OCHA Humanitarian situation report, 98.7.13 |
| | In his latest report on Sierra Leone to the Security Council, the UN Secretary-General recommends that a six-month peace-keeping observer mission be established to monitor the security situation and to assist the Government and ECOMOG in disarmament and demobilisation activities. | | | It is believed that the rebels have established bases in Port Loko district and in various locations in the North and North-East of Sierra Leone. | | | On 30 June, UN-HACU in collaboration with the National Commission of Reconstruction, Resettlement and Reintegration organised an inter-agency assessment of Masingbi (located between Makeni and Koidu in Tonkolili district) in the light of reports of a continuing influx of displaced from Kono district into the town. |
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http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Newsletters/irinw71398.html
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| | CNN.com - Freetown Part 1: Release - May 21, 2002 |
| | Makeni was once a thriving market town, but in 1998 the RUF invaded it with the help of renegade soldiers from the Sierra Leone army. | | | Sasko Simba was 15 when he was captured by the RUF and forced to fight in and around Makeni. | | | We have been sent to Makeni by Caritas, the agency responsible for getting abducted children back to their families, to meet Muckson Sesay. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/africa/01/04/freetown.1
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| | Guardian Panic as rebel stronghold scents battle |
| | Sierra Leone government forces have been steadily advancing inland toward Makeni as the rebels have found themselves pushed further from the fringes of the coastal capital of Freetown over the past six weeks. | | | The 11-member Conteh family fled after one of its number, Alfred, a renter of bicycles in Makeni, was shot by a rebel. | | | On the leaflet warning the RUF and Makeni's residents of a pending attack is a copy of a $500 note and a picture of a man with his arms hacked off. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4030518-103970,00.html
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| | Comments & Views in Sierra Leone from Makeni: Sierra Leone News |
| | Jacob Jusu Saffa, the newly elected Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has in his reaction to his victory over the erudite outgoing Secretary General, Dr. Prince Alex Harding said, his victory is remarkable in that it marks an end of an era as I defeated an elephant. | | | It was the delegates who took the destiny of the party in their hands and have streamlined the partys fate for the 2007 elections. | | | Some observers related this to what they referred to as the impostor presence of president Kabbah side by side his chosen successor, Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa. |
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| | slnews.htm |
| | Makeni, a small town in central Sierra Leone, is where the leaders of the former junta fled when they were ousted from the capital, Freetown, in February. | | | Koromah is reported to have made the request through Catholic Bishop George Biguzzi in Makeni. | | | Korban (20), a mechanic, is sitting in the outpatients' wing of the Makeni hospital dripping blood into a bowl on the floor while doctors sew up the stumps of his fingers. |
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http://users.ids.net/~handyman/slnews.htm
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| | "From the End to the Beginning" |
| | Sierra Leone - Outside the city of Makeni, at dusk... | | | NIKITA: The hostages are still being held here, at the abandoned school outside Makeni. | | | She keys up a three-dimensional, computer-simulated holograph model of the missionary school. |
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http://lfnforever.tripod.com/id100.htm
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| | Africa |
| | Their presence requires that friends and family of Kabala residents, government soldiers, British Forces, and United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) troops all enter the town by air in helicopters. | | | This situation was so grave during the 1996 election that President Kabbah had to fly over Makeni - now commonly referred to as the rebel city - to visit Kambia, Kabala and Bunbuna while on his campaign trail. | | | Despite the close proximity to Makeni, Lieutenant Colonel F.K. Kamara, the Commanding Officer of the 700-man SLA contingent based in Kabala, said that his men were deployed nine miles outside the town and that they were sufficient in numbers to prevent the town’s recapture by the RUF. |
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| | 212 CHILD SOLDIERS HANDED OVER TO CARITAS IN SIERRA LEONE |
| | Over the last few days, the rebels of the United Revolutionary Front of Sierra Leone have handed over 212 "child soldiers" to Caritas in the Makeni diocese. | | | The 212 children, 32 of whom are girls, have been housed in the building of the Major Catholic Seminary of the city of Makeni, capital of the province of the North. | | | The news was disclosed to the MISNA missionary agency on Wednesday by Bishop Giorgio Biguzzi of Makeni, a promoter of the peace process in the country. |
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| | The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com |
| | MAKENI, SIERRA LEONE - For the people of Makeni, turning the other cheek is much to ask. | | | Taken from their parents when they were just four or five years old, most of the children have no recollection of their families, says the Rev. Victor Bongiovanni, an Italian priest who helps the children through his Makeni Child Protection Project. | | | Having taken shelter at the Roman Catholic-run Pastoral Center in the central town of Makeni, Masseh recently recalled his ordeal. |
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| | Sierra Leone Government Bombing Causes Civilian Deaths (Human Rights Watch, July 12, 2000) |
| | Human Rights Watch called on the Sierra Leone government and its British military advisors to ensure that government forces respect international humanitarian law and take the necessary precautions to protect civilians. | | | Forty-year-old Zainab from Makeni described seeing the bodies of four men and three women after the helicopter gunship attacked the crowded lorry park in the center of town on May 31. | | | The attacks took place during the months of May and June in the towns of Makeni, Magburaka and Kambia and have resulted at least 27 civilian deaths and some 50 wounded civilians, as well as the displacement of tens of thousands of civilians. |
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