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[from amaah] A former rebel faces the Sierra Leonean farmer he maimed
Facing the man who cut off your arm, drowned your child and sent your wife off to be raped and/or killed. Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Liberia, one village at a time
[from amaah] 'Craft guns' fuel West Africa crime epidemic
the weapons were traditionally produced for hunting and for farmers to protect livestock but criminal gangs and tribal conflicts have revolutionised demand. Alarmist headline notwithstanding locally-manufactured guns are problematic
[from amaah] Route of Evil
Hyperbole for sure but founded on the rise of Guinea-Bissau as a major staging point for the drug trade from Columbia and Venezuela to Europe. The effects are what one can expect: a hollowed state, narco-corruption, addicts
[from amaah] Flames of hate
The South African violence against foreigners is horrific enough without even being confronted by the images. Mobs are an awful thing. Still I dare not look away.
[from amaah] U.N. Loses Patience With Somali Custom of Kidnapping
old article on that peculiarly Somali tradition that perhaps best underlies the anarchy we have seen for the past few decades and fits the stereotypes, untrustworthy, fickle, clannish, capricious and chewing khat with slights and the profit motive
[from amaah] Gadhafi's Torture Prison: Medic Recalls Eight Years in Libyan Jail
The Heart of Darkness. Palestinian-born Bulgarian doctor Ashraf al-Hazouz, 37, recalls his eight-year imprisonment in Libyan jails, describing his torture at the hands of Gadhafi's thugs and the ordeals of the five nurses imprisoned with him.
[from amaah] S.Leone court jails militiamen for heinous crimes
Sierra Leone's war crimes court sentenced three militia leaders to long jail terms for "some of the most heinous, brutal and atrocious crimes ever recorded in human history. mutilated, killed, burned in their houses abducting children, slavery, soldiers
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