‘We fall and we rise': Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to farming to combat discrimination
Sierra Leone's brutal civil war from 1991-2002 created about 28,000 amputees. Now many live on the streets and beg, facing ...
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‘We fall and we rise’: Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to farming to combat discrimination
The phrase encapsulates his journey since the civil war in Sierra Leone. From 1991 to 2002, conflict in the West African country created some 28,000 amputees like him. Amputation by machete was ...
From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?
Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...
From A Colonial Hill Town To Idris Elba's Island Masterplan, What Can Two Sierra Leone Developments A Century Apart Tell Us About Urban Elitism?
Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ...
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On Muammar Gaddafi: Teacher, don’t teach me nonsense, By Osmund Agbo
Gaddafi’s 42-year rule in Libya was marked by widespread arbitrary arrests, authoritarianism, and the suppression of dissent.
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Closing The Book Of Prejudice On France
Only three Nigerian leaders have been invited by the British Monarch for state visits to Buckingham Palace. They are General ...
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Why Do Some Rebel Governments Last When Others Fall?
The regime of former President Bashar al-Assad, whose supporters once chanted “our leader forever,” has been deposed by an alliance of rebel groups after a 13-year civil war. The rebel group ...
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Mass graves in Syria reveal ‘machinery of death’ under Bashar al-Assad
QUTAYFAH, Syria An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader ...
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Closing the book of prejudice on France, By Eric Teniola
France at present is the third biggest economy in Europe, so we can't shut down the opportunities it has to offer.
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Report exposes Hamas terrorist crimes against families during Oct 7 massacre: 'kinocide'
These are just a few of the countless stories documented in a new report released on Tuesday, co-authored by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy, founder of the Civil ... to Syria, Sierra Leone and Myanmar.