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 ...
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'We fall and we rise': Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to farming to combat discrimination
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Lahai Makieu struck the bamboo with a machete until it cracked and fell. Balancing on his ...
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'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 FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Lahai Makieu struck the bamboo with a machete until it cracked and fell. Balancing on his ...
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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Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to farming to combat discrimination
Lahai Makieu struck the bamboo with a machete until it cracked and fell. Balancing on his crutch, he reached to pick it up.
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Liberia: War Crimes Court Office Finally Receives Government Funds but Reveals a Running Cost Three Times Budget Allocation
Two months after the appointment of Dr. Jallah Barbu as the second head of Liberia's Office of the War and Economic Crimes Court, the government has finally released $368,000 funding for Dr. Barbu and ...
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‘We fall and we rise': Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to farming to combat discrimination
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Farming trainees who have been amputated during Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1991-2002, do warmup ...
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Syria under Assad: Torment and torture
Half a million lives lost in a civil war under the younger ... Having formerly prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, Rapp knows what it takes to amass irrefutable evidence.
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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 ...
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The National Tourist Board of Sierra Leone
In recent years, the government of Sierra Leone has placed increasing emphasis on tourism ... However, factors such as a decade-long civil war, infrastructure deficits, and political instability have ...