"Our current forest conservation laws and policies are also not enforced by authorities." Battling deforestation Beran Forster, an assistant director at Sierra Leone's Environmental Protection Agency, acknowledges the scale of the problem. "The major impact on the environment in Sierra Leone is human...
"Our current forest conservation laws and policies are also not enforced by authorities." Battling deforestation Beran Forster, an assistant director at Sierra Leone's Environmental Protection Agency, acknowledges the scale of the problem. "The major impact on the environment in Sierra Leone is human...
Although the RUF began with political messages to guarantee free compulsory education, disperse diamond wealth to the people of Sierra Leone, and challenge the corrupt Freetown elite, most RUF activity was largely for socioeconomic and partially political, rather than ideological, reasons. Subsequently,...
When she and her teammates arrived at the Sino-Sierra Leone Friendship Hospital in Freetown, the biggest local hospital, the situation was dire: rising confirmed cases and scarce medical resources. "There were no local doctors but a few temporary nurses at the hospital," Huang said. The Chinese...
Ebola virus disease has taken a toll on more than 8,000 lives in West Africa in 2014. The most affected countries are Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The number of people infected by Ebola in Sierra Leone surpassed that of Liberia in the last month in
The remark brought me back full circle to the very beginning of the Fambul Tok program in 2007, when we made the decision to GRFXPHQWWKHXQIROGLQJZRUNLQoOPQRWNQRZLQJ exactly what we would end up with – but having a full conviction that the people of Sierra Leone, given ...
Sierra Leone's economy is largely informal, and women dominate the food market. the situation. Structural adjustment policies by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have often further exacerbated these problems by increasing the income disparity between people, and orienting the economy...
Despite repeated assurances from the DHL Sierra Leone office that we would be receiving the laptops by Friday, at the latest Saturday at 1 pm, we are now sitting here at 6:40 pm posting this blog with nary an XO in sight. Here is what we find troubling about this situation and the ...
Lilian A. Barria (Associate Professor of Political Science) & Steven D. Roper (Professor of Political Science) (Associate Professor of Political Science) & (Professor of Political Science) Stensrud, E.E. (2010). Mixed Justice, Mixed Legacy: The Special Court for Sierra Leone. In: Barria, ...