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    reported that more than 50‚000 Sierra Leoneans had fled to neighboring Guinea. In an effort to end the terror‚ the government offered the guerrillas an amnesty in April‚ but the offer was refused. In August‚ Nigeria returned RUF leader Foday Sankoh to Sierra Leone for trial. He had been arrested in Nigeria in 1997 after arriving to buy arms. In April 1998‚ the British government launched an investigation into allegations that the British ambassador to Sierra Leone had aided a British mercenary force

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    Hendina Riyadi Blood Diamond Research For thousands of years‚ diamonds have been highly regarded by everyone from kings and queens to ordinary people. Diamonds are a symbol for wealth‚ elegance‚ love‚ and power. Centuries ago‚ they were also a symbol of courage‚ invincibility and strength. What is less commonly known is that these stones are also a symbol of terror and death. Conflicts arise from the mining of these gems; many people have died and many are perhaps still dying because of the mining

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    Long Way Gone Myths

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    Long Way Gone I found three myths that related to cultural. One myth was on page 181 where Ishmael’s aunt served him some chicken as to welcome him‚ and chicken is not simply chicken to the Sierra Leone people‚ they represent honor and special. On pages 12‚ 172 and 157‚ it tells how the cultural in Sierra Leone does not allow men to cry. Men represent strong and are the whole in the family. If the men are weak‚ then the whole family wills collapse. Cheng 3 Lastly‚ on page 16‚ it talks about the

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    UN Peacekeeping Operations in Africa by Vladimír Kváča Jan Masaryk Centre of International Studies‚ University of Economics‚ Prague From the total of all 60 UN peacekeeping operations in history‚ a considerable number (over 38 %) took or takes place in Africa. Particularly in the post-Cold War era‚ became Africa a permanent challenge for UN peacekeeping attempts. Attitude of the United Nations Security Council (UN SC) towards the security situation in Africa have evolved in time‚ but the performance

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    Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften SE Der Bürgerkrieg in Sierra Leone SoSe 2009 Silke Strickrodt Die Revolutionary United Front (RUF) Irena Kpogbezan-Lämmerer Leipziger Straÿe 41 10117 Berlin Tel.: 0176/6300 4127 Mail: laemmeri@cms.hu-berlin.de 14. Dezember 2009 Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Einleitung 2 Intellektuelle oder lumpen  soziale Ursprünge der RUF 3 Greed or Grievance  Motive der Rebellen 4 Willkürliche Gewalt oder rationales politisches Kalkül? 5 Fazit 6 Bibliographie 2 4 8 12

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    Amistad Film Analysis

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    Amistad‚ directed by Steven Spielberg‚ displays the fierce determination of 53 African abductees and their compelling desire to return home. Led by Cinqué (or Sengbe)‚ a man longing to see his wife and son in Sierra Leone again‚ the men aboard the ship La Amistad rebelled against the Spanish slave traders who guarded them from escape. Using sugar cane knives stolen from cargo aboard the ship‚ the Africans defeated the gun-wielding Spaniards. With ambitions of returning to West Africa‚ they eventually

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    Beah’s imagery demonstrates to us the falling state of Sierra Leone: “Dogs were feasting on the burnt remains of the Iman‚ above vultures circled‚ preparing to descend on the body as well”(46). To clarify‚ the Iman was a respected piece of the village but now the Iman is nothing. He was burnt and is now scavenger’s food. Beah shows us through imagery that Sierra Leone is like the Iman‚ being burnt down and becoming the Rebels food. A sophosicated college bound

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    Excessive Poverty As American citizens‚ we should be the first to attest to the fact that we are very privileged in many aspects of life. For the most part‚ regardless of social class‚ each of us see at least one or two meals on a daily basis; even some of the less fortunate people in our country can attest to the fact they have some type of shelter to rely on at night. Unfortunately‚ however‚ often times we don’t look at our lives from this perspective. We’ve become accustomed to the “American

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    Children as young as eight are being abducted and used as weapons of war in government forces or armed rebel groups. Both girls and boys are used as child soldiers to proceed the most horrifying horrors. In Africa‚ Sierra Leone and Uganda‚ innocent children eighteen and under are being abducted and obligated in becoming soldiers. These child soldiers are given away by their families due to poverty and hunger‚ while others volunteer to avenge the death of their family members. The LRA (Lord Resistance

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    Wilton Hayward Professor Brian Parlopiano History 101 April 29‚ 2014 The Scramble for Africa During the 1800s colonization reached one of its peaks‚ almost every European country was scrambling for any un-colonized lands. The one continent that none of them had really made their mark on was the African continent. Africa was very abundant in natural resources‚ which made the European countries more eager to be the ones to colonize it first. Whether it be gold‚ iron‚ cotton or ivory all of the countries

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