Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Assignment: In the Shadow of Charles Taylor BBC World Service
Sierra Leonean journalist Amara Bangura travels through Sierra Leone and Liberia for Assignment to meet those who remember the brutality of the Charles Taylor era. A special court in the Hague has found the former president of Liberia guilty of aiding and abetting crimes against humanity, murder, rape and terrorism in neighbouring Sierra Leone during the brutal civil war in the 1990s.
Charles Taylor info
Friday, April 6, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Somalia: A timeline of change in a troubled country - from CSM
Since the end of the cold war in 1991, Somalia has gone from US client state, balancing the power of the Soviet-backed Ethiopia, to a civil war torn country dependent on foreign aid for survival.
Despite a number of foreign interventions to secure the passage of food aid to civilians in the past two decades, none have managed to diminish the power of religious and clan militias, or create a strong central government capable of rebuilding a peaceful country.
Here is a timeline of changes, intervention, and mediation in 5 bite-sized bits:
Despite a number of foreign interventions to secure the passage of food aid to civilians in the past two decades, none have managed to diminish the power of religious and clan militias, or create a strong central government capable of rebuilding a peaceful country.
Here is a timeline of changes, intervention, and mediation in 5 bite-sized bits:
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
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