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...“There is a danger that the SLPP will increasingly use this opportunity to push through its agenda, not contested, if the APC does not re-engage in politics,” said Alex Vines, who leads the Africa programme...
...Among the others, David Soar and Alex Otterburn sing strongly as Hobson and Ned Keene, and Clive Bayley is authoritative as the lawyer Swallow....
...Hooft worked for the British government as a development official in Sierra Leone and it shows in her fine eye for detail....
...or so culturally rich pueblos magicos or “magic towns”, it occupies a 2-hectare site within a biosphere reserve, surrounded by farmland, cactus desert, an oasis of 5,000 palms and the foothills of the Sierra...
...Chiswell, who won a Military Cross in Sierra Leone as a major, and also came from the macho paratrooper tribe, interrupted his men. “I’m sorry, you’ve got this completely wrong,” he said....
...to Sierra Leone....
...“These elections may be the last time that the binary politics of SLPP and APC continues,” said Alex Vines, head of the Africa programme at the UK’s Chatham House....
...(The film she wants to make is about the civil war in Sierra Leone.)...
...Alex Cox is a film-maker...
...The show’s chief pleasures reside in the performances of the children; of Sierra Boggess as the school’s headmistress; and, most of all, of the unstinting Alex Brightman as Dewey....
...Pamplona’s chairman is Moscow-born Alex Knaster, who ran Russia’s Alfa-Bank between 1998 and 2004, before setting up the alternatives manager....
...“It has affected all emerging markets,” said Alex von Sponeck, a banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “The troughs and peaks in Africa are simply greater because the markets are less liquid.”...
...Even China has 1,000 craft brewers,” says Alex Barth of the Barth-Haas Group, a leading hop trader headquartered in Germany....
...On his way home from Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in December, Ernest Bai Koroma, the president of Sierra Leone, stopped off in Angola to discuss an investment in his war-scarred nation....
...Buyers from China, Russia and India are “ready to go if the law is changed”, says Alex Vaughan of Lucas Fox estate agency....
...“What flourishes here, what goes on in the Sierra Maestra? I had to find out. Let me take you.”...
...Gibb, deputy head of mission, Sana’a, Yemen Christopher O’Connor, ambassador, Tunisia Jeremy Sargent, for services to UK business and legal services in China Michael Shearer, deputy high commissioner, Sierra...
...Losing amphibious landing ships would leave Britain unable to mount even a relatively small operation such as the mission in Sierra Leone 10 years ago, he warns....
...Other factors are hurting Russia’s appeal, says Alex Turkeltaub, chairman of Frontier Strategy Group, a consultancy focused on emerging markets....
...His Governance Initiative is a well-regarded project that helps the presidents of Sierra Leone and Rwanda deliver policy and attract foreign investment....
...Charles Taylor, the former Liberian dictator, is already on trial in the Hague before a special tribunal on war crimes in Sierra Leone....
...The Memory of Love, by Aminatta Forna, Bloomsbury RRP£17.99 Forna’s beautiful novel traces the fates of damaged characters in the wake of Sierra Leone’s civil conflict during the 1990s, as those who would...
...But the Nigerian government changed its mind and delivered him up for prosecution by the special court on the war in Sierra Leone....
...Alex Tamba Brima, Brima Bazzy Kamara and Santigie Borbor, amongst the leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) were found guilty of killings, rape and the use of child soldiers amongst other...
...Alex de Waal, a journalist who has covered the issue for the past decade, writes on the website Open Democracy, that, “the prosecutor is striking an immense blow for universal jurisdiction....
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