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Sierra Leone Travel Journals (with photos) by five of fifteen travelers to three villages

Personal journals and helpful background information with dozens of photos describing village life, needs, and challenges in May 2006.  Written by five of 15 travelers on the first trip to the villages sponsored through Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis.

Sierra Leone Travel Journals--Home Page  

Misc. Reprints on Sierra Leone in www.SLPP.org

Torture: "Scenes And Tales From A Hospital After The Rebel Invasion Of Freetown
And Other Stories Of Terror"
Copied here from www.sierra-leone.info/civilwar/amputeetales.htm because the original is difficult to read. 

Torture Article

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Other Article Sources

Africa South of the Sahara: Sierra Leone

Excellent list of resources, esp. for online news articles and documents of governments and international agencies.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/sierra.html

Bourne, Mike --"Conflict Diamonds: Roles, Responsibilities and Responses"

Full text paper published Jan. 2001. 20 pages in Adobe pdf. (University of Bradford, Dept. of Peace Studies. Working Paper, 2.1) Concerns Angola, Sierra Leone, Congo (Kinshasa). The University is in Bradford, West Yorkshire, U.K.

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/pubs/pubs.htm

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP)

Carleton University.  Provides country rankings, on-line presentations and a mapping component, risk assessments, regional conflict analysis, early warning research, and open-source data, measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages. "Our database currently includes statistical data measures for over hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning fifteen years. These indicators are drawn from a variety of open sources." Statistics for African countries are sometimes not available. Has, in Adobe pdf, the full text of Conflict Risk Assessment Report: West Africa: Mano River Union and Senegambia (01/04/2002) 369K; Democratic Republic of Congo: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 25K; Sierra Leone: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 35K. 

http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/

Conciliation Resources, Occasional Papers

Includes "Lome is Dead! Long Live Lome!" A talk given at Conciliation Resources 9th August 2000 by Dr. Dennis Bright, Commissioner, Commission for the Consolidation of Peace, Sierra Leone and many other papers on Sierra Leone. "Founded in 1994, CR is a multi-racial and international organization employing 10 staff in London and eight (including project and support staff) in Sierra Leone with offices in Freetown and Bo." 

http://www.c-r.org/pubs/occ_papers/

Conflicts in Africa--Sierra Leone 

A discussion about the civil war period in 1990s Sierra Leone, with additional links added. 

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/Africa/SierraLeone.asp  

Documents about Sierra Leone

Important documents—speeches, government agreements, etc.  

http://www.sierra-leone.org/documents.html. 

Expo Times

"Published fortnightly, with regular news updates between issues." Electronic version of a former print newspaper in Sierra Leone which was forced to close due to the war. Now published on-line and in print from France and the U.K. Publisher and Ibrahim Seaga Shaw. Has links to Sierra Leone sites, community pages.

http://www.expotimes.net/

Focus on Sierra Leone

"on-line newsletter reporting and analysing political and social events in Sierra Leone" Editor is Ambrose Ganda. Articles date from 2001 and earlier. 

http://www.focus-on-sierra-leone.co.uk/

Global Policy Forum - Sierra Leone

Has full text U.N. resolutions, reports, journal and newspapers articles, covering 1998 to date, and a link to the Sandline Report - UK Select Committee on Foreign Affairs (1999) - "A UK government report on the 'Sandline Affair', which saw the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office implicated in a Sierra Leone arms trafficking scandal." The Forum, in New York City, seeks to make the U.N. more responsive to citizen concerns.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/slindex.htm

News Archives about Sierra Leone.  News articles and press releases, 1994-2003.

http://www.sierra-leone.org/slnews2.html

Sierra Leone Government

Official site with news from the Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA). 

http://www.sierraleone.gov.sl/

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Female Genital Mutilation: Some of these pages are difficult to look at, but these three Web sites do a good job of covering what is a widespread problem of profound consequence to most cultures throughout Africa and is life changing to the great majority of most women in Africa.  http://www.fgmnetwork.
org/Lightfoot-klein/prisonersofritual.htm.      

Female Genital Mutiliation: "Prisoners of Ritual - Some Contemporary Developments in the History of Female Genital Mutilation" by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, a "paper presented at the Second International Symposium on Circumcision in San Francisco, April 30-May 3, 1991.  5000 w.

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/
content/full/pediatrics;
102/1/153.  

"Female Genital Mutilation": American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Bioethics, Policy Statement.  Pediatrics, Vol. 102, No. 1, July 1998, pp. 153-156.  "Abstract": "The traditional custom of ritual cutting and alteration of the genitalia of female infants, girls, and adolescents...persists....  Immigrants...may [also] have daughters who have undergone a ritual genital procedure or may request that such a procedure be performed…."  2000 w.   (WARNING: GRAPHIC DRAWINGS).

http://www.religioustolerance.org/
fem_cirm.htm.  

"Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Africa, the Middle East & Far East" by B.A. Robinson - .Viewpoint from Islamic beliefs.  "FGM is a social custom, not a religious practice. However, in those Muslim countries where it is practiced, FGM is often justified by a controversial saying attributed to the Prophet Mohammed that seems to favor sunna cir-cumcision.... Even if true, it only permits the practice, ...not mandate it." 1600 w.

Health Information for Travelers to Countries in West Africa, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.cdc.gov/travel/wafrica.htm#country

Midwifery Articles and Books

Find dozens of articles and books about midwifery in Third World Countries and in Africa.

www.globalmidwives.org/articles.html 

Midwives for Missions of Service, an American organization devoted to successfully training midwives in Sierra Leone's eastern region.
www.globalmidwives.org/sierraleone1.html

Prosthetics Outreach Foundation--Helping the Developing World Walk Again.  Sierra Leonean Rehabilitation Initiative.

http://www.pofsea.org/sierraleone.htm