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Culver City gallery owner gives crutches to Sierra Leone disabled
As a Culver City art gallery owner and marketing and advertising executive, Lisa Schultz wondered whether there was anything she could do about the plight of disabled men, women and children in Sierra Leone.
Many had lost limbs during unspeakable...Tags: UNICEF, Birth Defects, Photography, Arts, Physical Disabilities
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Your morning adorable: Pygmy hippopotamus born at Zoo Miami
L.A. UnleashedAt Florida's Zoo Miami, the recent birth of a pygmy hippopotamus is cause for big excitement. The baby, a female, is the first of her species to be born at the zoo in more than two decades and the first...... -
Sierra Leone's crises have global reach
When the power went out that night, Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie was operating on his fifth patient of the day in a maternity hospital with a shortage of antibiotics and running water. His colleague was doing an emergency caesarean in the next room. In the...Tags: Gold and Precious Material, Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Health and Medical Professionals, Africa, Afghanistan
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Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine's traffic hub
Reporting from Bissau, Guinea-BissauAs a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African country, with its starry array of remote islands, as a transit point for drug shipments bound for Europe. It hasn't been...Tags: Africa, France, Police Arrests, Feet, Disasters and Accidents
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A war on women
Greetings from a war zone that's not Iraq. And not Afghanistan either. I'm checking in from West Africa, where I've been working with women in three neighboring countries, all recently torn apart by civil wars: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast....Tags: Justice and Rights, Africa, Television, Afghanistan, Children
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Mass murderers on notice
Can monsters be deterred? Or are the people who commit the most unthinkable crimes against humanity — mass murder, torture, genocide — so hell-bent on evil that the normal considerations of common criminals, such as fear of being caught, don't apply? If...Tags: Murder, Pol Pot, International Relations, Social Issues, Crimes
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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Perform in Collinsville This Week
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars formed, as their name suggests, when its members were living in a camp for displaced persons in Guinea, having fled the decade-long civil war in their home country. Writing and performing gave the band and its audience a...Tags: Documentary (genre), DJ Logic, Facebook, Politics, Freetown (Sierra Leona)
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Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Perform in Collinsville this Week
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
May 25, Bridge Street Live, 41 Bridge St., Collinsville, (860) 693-9762, 41bridgestreet.com
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars formed, as their name suggests, when its members were living in a camp for displaced persons...Tags: Documentary (genre), DJ Logic, Facebook, Politics, Freetown (Sierra Leona)
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A birthday for hope
Some 30 years ago, I was walking the dry, hot, dusty streets of Berbera, Somalia. I was a young U.S. Navy sailor and our ship had pulled in to meet a destroyer tender for some essential repairs. We had been given a few precious hours of liberty, a gift...Tags: Guinea, Mogadishu (Somalia), Armed Forces, National Government, Vietnam
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Win the FOX Rocks Lunchbox!
Sign up to win the Fox Rocks Lunchbox! K-Mack announces a new winner every Monday and Thursday at 10am drawn from all entries. We visit the winner at work and deliver the coveted FOX ROCKS LUNCH BOX, filled with great prizes every Tuesday and Friday...Tags: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Africa, Nepal, Azerbaijan, Philippines
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Weekend's top shows: Sierra Leone Refugee All-Stars, Heartsfield, Van Dyke Parks
Turn It UpSierra Leone Refugee All-Stars: Originally based in West African refugee camps after escaping from a bloody civil war in their homeland, this group has come to international fame with their plaintive harmony vocals and exuberant dance grooves, 10 p.m.... -
Mia Farrow Challenges Naomi Campbell's 'Blood Diamonds' Testimony
Associated PressLEIDSCHENDAM -- Naomi Campbell told Mia Farrow that she received a "huge diamond" from the former president of Liberia, the actress said from the witness stand Monday, contradicting the model's testimony that she didn't know the value of the gift from...Tags: Justice and Rights, Witnesses, Television, Music Industry, International Relations
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