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    Nov 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. 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 corridor, a bucket on the floor held a stillborn baby.
    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: Science and Technology, Dallas, Infants, Judges, Sierra Leone

    2. May 19, 2011 |Story| Hartford Advocate

  2. 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 way to escape their gloomy confines, to imagine a better future, and the band's music treats painful material with an improbably upbeat touch. In a 2005 documentary, the band toured several camps in U.N. Land Cruisers, traveling dusty and dangerous roads to bring a ramshackle party to countrymen in dire need of some good times.
    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: Politics, DJ Logic, Documentary (genre), Sierra Leone, Refugee

    3. May 16, 2011 |Story| Hartford Advocate

  3. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Perform in Collinsville this Week

    <strong>Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars</strong>
    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: DJ Logic, Politics, Documentary (genre), Sierra Leone, Refugee

    4. Sep 10, 2009 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  4. 221 Missing After Boat Capsizes

    FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- More than 200 people including many schoolchildren returning from holidays remained missing Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized at sea and left at least eight dead, police said.
    Associated Press
    FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- More than 200 people including many schoolchildren returning from holidays remained missing Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized at sea and left at least eight dead, police said. Some 39 passengers have been rescued so...

    Tags: Western Africa, Sierra Leone, Health and Safety at School, Death, Disasters and Accidents

    5. Mar 20, 2007 |Story| Zap2It

  5. DVD Review: 'Blood Diamond'

    There are a couple of DVD versions of &quot;Blood Diamond" hitting shelves this week. If you're at all interested in the real-life situation the movie dramatizes, lay down the extra six bucks for the two-disc special edition.
    Zap2It.com
    There are a couple of DVD versions of "Blood Diamond" hitting shelves this week. If you're at all interested in the real-life situation the movie dramatizes, lay down the extra six bucks for the two-disc special edition. The single-disc set will get...

    Tags: Crimes, Film Festivals, Wars and Interventions, Documentary (genre), DVDs and Movies

    6. Apr 3, 2005 |Story| Hartford Courant

  6. New London Towards Africa

    The Hartford Courant
    The island greeted me with its stillness, the tropical air so hot and thick it felt like a weight on my body. I waded ashore in water as warm as a bath, and looked up. Behind the trees where the shoreline ends, I could see patches of a stone wall,...

    Tags: Republican Party, Connecticut River, Thames River, Norwich, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)

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Freetown (Sierra Leona) Photos
When you get through trekking the landscapes of the lan...
(September 24, 2011)
When you get through trekking the landscapes of the land, stop in Freetown in Sierra Leone for some intense city life that full of music and color.
Women scarred by Sierra Leone's civil war take sewing c...
(August 31, 2009)
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