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	Sierra Leone Human Rights Practices, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Title: Sierra Leone Human Rights Practices, 1995 Author: U.S. Department of State Date: March 1996 SIERRA LEONE Sierra Leone is a republic governed by a military junta, the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC).
		Elections were planned for February 1996, and at year's end, the Government and the Interim National Election Commission were seeking international donor support to finance voter registration and elections.
		Sierra Leone does not recognize domestic violence against women as a societal problem and the Government gives it little high-level attention.
	www.usemb.se /human/human95/sierrale.htm (4992 words)

	Elections in Sierra Leone \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		After a particularly brutal civil war in which rebels were known to hack off children's limbs, Sierra Leone is holding presidential elections that mark a return to normality.
		Today's election would have seemed unthinkable two years ago, when Sierra Leone, a former British colony, was being ripped apart by a decade-long conflict that claimed about 200,000 lives.
		Britain sent 1,000 troops to Sierra Leone in May 2000 to rescue foreign nationals when RUF rebels seemed on the verge of capturing the capital, Freetown.
	www.guardian.co.uk /sierra/article/0,,367154,00.html (632 words)

	RTE News - Indications of Sierra Leone president victory
		Early results from the elections in Sierra Leone are reporting a significant lead for President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.
		After balloting yesterday in the first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of a brutal 10-year war, the count suggests ex-rebels (Revolutionary United Front) are struggling to become a serious political force.
		As well as winning nearly all the vote in parts of the southern ethnic Mende heartland of his Sierra Leone People's Party, Kabbah did well in politically changeable Freetown constituencies, which have proved decisive in the past.
	www.rte.ie /news/2002/0515/sierraleone.html (280 words)

	Conflict resolution, prevention, and transformation: Search for Common Ground
		Election day was peaceful and SFCG-SL, in collaboration with the Independent Radio Network and a network of youth monitors, was there to document and report on the elections process as it happened.
		The Sierra Leonean people were able to choose someone to lead them for the next few years as they work to consolidate peace and move forward together.
		A main objective of SFCG-SL's work surrounding the elections was to be involved in the electoral process and help open it up to the part of the electorate that had been brutalized by war and violence for the past ten years.
	www.sfcg.org /programmes/sierra/sierra_elections.html (797 words)

	Conciliation Resources: Sierra Leone Elections
		These two major elections, in 1967 and 1996, have shown that in spite of the context of fear and intimidation into which those events were woven, the Sierra Leone electorate is capable of choosing who they want and thereby change the course of their history.
		Five years on, on 13th February 2001 to be exact, the Sierra Leone Parliament, in accordance with the Constitution, approved a motion to extend the term of the SLPP Government for six months.
		I have also come across a rather dismal and resigned position which sees the conflict in Sierra Leone as having a soul of its own that is independent of elections or such political events, and will therefore continue its unhindered progress as it did after the 1996 polls.
	www.c-r.org /resources/occasional-papers/sierra-leone-elections.php (2589 words)

	Afrol Sierra Leone Index Page: Links to Sierra Leone
		Sierra Leone Economic Development and Indicators is an annual NewAfrica country profile on their pages about African economy.
		The Sierra Leone Chiefdoms Vulnerabilty Analysis Web site is based on an analysis by the European Union of the conditions in the northern and eastern provinces of the country.
		Friends of Sierra Leone is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 by a small group of returned Peace Corps Volunteers, soon joined by their Sierra Leonean friends.
	www.afrol.com /Index/countries/sierraleoneindex.htm (2873 words)

	Elections In Sierra Leone: A Step Towards Regional Stability?
		The remarkable intervention of the international community, especially Great Britain, in Sierra Leone led to an end to the war and holding of elections on May 14, 2002.We commend the efforts to bring relative peace to Sierra Leone and the continued strides to bring lasting peace to our neighbor.
		With peace coming to Sierra Leone, Liberia is once again in the spotlight in the wake of renewed rebel activities and sanctions imposed as a result of actions of the Liberian Government, inimical to peace and stability not only in Liberia but the entire sub-region.
		He continues to push a grand scheme of political change and unless something is done to arrest the current deteriorating state of affairs in Liberia, the fragile peace in Sierra Leone and the resultant free and fair elections will not yield the desired stability in the region.
	www.theperspective.org /electionsinsl.html (748 words)

	International Peacemaking and Human Rights Programs - Sierra Leone- CarterCenter.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sierra Leone held presidential and parliamentary elections in May 2002 following the end of a decade of devastating civil war.
		Continuing commitment by the international community to Sierra Leone and the subregion will be imperative to translate this single election into sustainable peace, democracy, and respect for human rights.
		Later, an announcement from the Election Commission caused confusion by instructing that all individuals with voter cards should be allowed to cast ballots even if their names were not on registration lists.
	www.cartercenter.org /countries/sierra_leone.html (630 words)

	POLLS Close in Sierra Leone City Elections
		Turnout was reported low at most polling stations in Sierra Leone Saturday, but there were no reports of violence or intimidation.
		President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, who voted near his official residence in Freetown, said this was a sign his nation was moving away from the violence, civil wars and instability that plagued his country for the past three decades.
		Sierra Leonean observer Olayinka Creighton-Randall says not having the picture of candidates on the ballots was also a problem.
	www.visitsierraleone.org /news/news_item.asp?NewsID=15 (303 words)

	Britain's favoured candidate wins Sierra Leone elections
		The majority of people in Sierra Leone clearly voted for Kabbah because of his association with the British and UN peacekeeping intervention in the country, in the hope that his administration will bring peace and reconstruction after a decade of war.
		The war is taking place over similar issues to those in Sierra Leone, with rebels claiming to represent a popular opposition to the regime fighting to get control of the country’s resources and the RUF, along with the disparate groupings in Taylor’s armed forces, brutalising the Liberian population.
		Some indication of how little the population of Sierra Leone will gain from such operations, given that the country’s only source of income is from mineral exports, can be seen in the level of tax that is being applied to diamond companies.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/may2002/sier-m28.shtml (1492 words)

	allAfrica.com: Sierra Leone's 2002 Elections
		The presidential and parliamentary elections, which were meant to start a new chapter in Sierra Leone, were generally hailed as a success in and outside the country.
		As with wars elsewhere in Africa, Sierra Leone too will have to live with a ‘lost generation’ of young fighters who were either forced to take up arms or joined the war voluntarily to avenge the killings of their families.
		And once the UNAMSIL and the British pull out, the people of Sierra Leone know that eventually they will be left on their own, facing the enormous challenge of seeking reconciliation and healing a deeply divided nation.
	allafrica.com /photoessay/sleone_election2002 (252 words)

	IFES Election Guide - Country Profile: Sierra Leone - Elections
		The poll is regarded as a test for Sierra Leone's fragile democracy as the country is still recovering from the 10-year civil war that ended in 2002.
		The National Election Commission reports that some 20 parties including the RUFP have already registered to contest the first polls to be held in a decade.
		Elections were scheduled for earlier this year but were postponed due to rebel activities in large parts of the country.
	www.electionguide.org /country-news.php?ID=192 (299 words)

	afrol News: Sierra Leoneans organise peaceful poll
		Voters in Sierra Leone have turned out in huge numbers throughout the country to cast ballots in today's presidential and parliamentary elections.
		A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, yesterday in a statement called on all eligible Sierra Leoneans to exercise their right to vote in the spirit of "peace and tolerance," and wished them every success in rebuilding their country.
		After the elections, the final stage of the UN-brokered Sierra Leonean peace process will be to set up a special War Crimes Court together with the UN to go through the large number of atrocities during the civil war.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/sil011_elections.htm (788 words)

	Women, Peace and Security Resources: Sierra Leone
		The May 14, 2002 presidential and parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone marked a significant milestone in the consolidation of the country's peace.
		The Sierra Leone Women's Forum is a group of Sierra Leonean refugee women living in Guinea, who meet once a week to discuss issues that relate to their lives as refugees in Guinea and also that relate to the current crisis that forced all of them to leave Sierra Leone.
		Assisting Sierra Leonean women to resettle and rebuild their lives after years of conflict is a priority for the ICRC and the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS).
	www.peacewomen.org /resources/Sierra_Leone/sierraleoneindex.html (1470 words)

	Politics of Sierra Leone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politics of Sierra Leone takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sierra Leone is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
		Ministers of State are appointed by the president with the approval of the House of Representatives; the cabinet is responsible to the president.
		An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Sierra Leone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Sierra_Leone (577 words)

	Concord Times Newspaper ...Sierra Leone, West Africa : Online newspaper
		Farmata Hassan and other people, the president of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists instructed the Secretary-General to raise the matter with the ombudsman.There is evidence to prove that Secretary General Ibrahim Karim-Sei wrote a letter of compliant to Mr.
		It should also be noted that the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists had nothing to do with the decisions that led to setting up of the inquest and therefore had no say in the decision that led to the recruitment of Magistrate Adrian Fischer to serve as Coroner Officer.
		It is not true that SLAJ intends to dictate the manner in which the judiciary functions in Sierra Leone, nor is it true that SLAJ intends to undermine the respectability and integrity of the Chief Justice.
	www.concordtimessl.com /slaj.htm (1951 words)

	Sierra Leone Elections Results: May 2004 Local Government
		For the first time in thirty years, Sierra Leone held a Local Government Elections in which the people elected their councillors to represent them in their local governing councils.
		The Elections have been billed by independent pundits as the most free, fair and transparent constituency-based elections in the history of Sierra Leone.
		Sometime early next week, we will also be bringing you the results of the Postponed Elections in certain parts of Moyamba, Kono and Port Loko as well as the results of the upcoming Bye-Elections slated to replace one of the elected SLPP Kenema Councillors who passed away on Elections Day.
	www.elections-sl.org (1249 words)

	sierraleonenews: Berewa and Sierra Leone People's Party Support Devolution to Win Elections
		John Ernest Leigh, who was in the company of Vice President Solomon Berewa’s recent Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) sensitization tour, concedes to questions by civic-minded forum inquisitors that the Vice President uses "government vehicles and drivers paid by the government" for his seemingly SLPP election sensitization tours.
		This is inconsistent with Vice President Solomon Berewa’s action of distributing of "well over Ninety Million Leones to various diamond mining areas in the southern province of Sierra Leone," according to the Awareness Times newspaper report of February 22, 2006.
		The only explanation for this disproportionate distribution of wealth in Sierra Leone is the prevalence of tribalism and cronyism in SLPP leadership.
	sierraleonenews.livejournal.com /56526.html (1257 words)

	NDA Party gears up for 2007 Elections in Sierra Leone
		Addressing the mammoth gathering, the National Chairman of the party, Hadson Massaquoi, informed his supporters that the party stands for the respect of Sierra Leoneans and that this is the time the NDA party must stand firm to rule the country.
		Razzak however noted that for the party to be on a sound footing during the 2007 elections and to ensure its hopes of winning, every member or supporter of the party should their registration with the party’s secretariat and to cast their votes solidly for the NDA during the election process.
		She pointed out that women of Sierra Leone have the potential to effect the required change for the good of the country and that this can be achieved if they vote solidly behind the NDA.
	news.sl /drwebsite/publish/printer_2005357.shtml (1038 words)

	Women call for 30% representation in 2007 elections in Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone News
		He noted further that the holding of the conference by the party’s women is a demonstration of the determination of the women of Sierra Leone to actively engage in the overall socio-economic development of the country.
		Solomon Ekuma Berewa noted that excluding women from the body politic and governance of the state is undemocratic and assured the women of government’s commitment to ensuring that the women of Sierra Leone are adequately represented in all spheres of democratic governance of the country.
		He urged SLPP members to work hard towards achieving victory in the 2007 elections and called on them to always be steadfast to the ideals of the party and be prepared to defend those ideals wherever they may be.
	news.sl /drwebsite/publish/article_20053476.shtml (899 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Sierra Leone names elections date
		The government of war-ravaged Sierra Leone has named 14 May 2002 as the day when presidential and parliamentary elections will be held, resisting calls from rebels for an interim government.
		Elections scheduled for this year were postponed due to insecurity caused by 10 years of civil war characterised by atrocities against civilians.
		President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah had said it was necessary to postpone the elections until the disarmament process that accompanies the current ceasefire is complete, because voters would not feel secure until this was done.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1528286.stm (411 words)

	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1995 - Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sierra Leone is a republic governed by a military junta, the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC).
		In June the NPRC lifted the 10-year ban on political parties, but at the same time issued a decree banning 57 individuals from political activity for a period of 10 years.
		There were serious violations of humanitarian law in the internal conflict throughout the war zone, chiefly summary executions of prisoners and noncombatants, and torture and killing of civilians.
	www.usemb.se /human/1995/africa/sierra_leone.html (4935 words)

	ELECTIONS-SIERRA LEONE: An Election 30 Years in the Making
		But, they are if you live in Sierra Leone and have not had a say about local councillors in three decades.
		The municipal elections are crucial and clearly a test for the SLPP, which got 70 percent of the votes in general elections held almost two years ago.
		For most of the past decade, Sierra Leone - diamond-rich but plagued by a brutal civil war and political instability - remained one of the world's poorest countries in spite of its substantial mineral, agricultural, and fishery resources.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/interna.asp?idnews=23412 (849 words)

	USAID Telling Our Story: Sierra Leone - Keeping Peace During Elections In Sierra Leone
		USAID sponsored a Nation Building program in Sierra Leone’s Kono, Kailahun and Koinadugu Districts — the districts longest held under rebel control, and considered to be the most devastated by the civil war.
		In January 2003, paramount chief elections in Sierra Leone were generally orderly, and violence-free.
		Disgruntled at alleged vote fixing and the resulting prospect of a run-off election, youth leader Alie Mara and his supporters marched and threw stones at the home of Alie’s main opponent and well-known parliamentary leader.
	www.usaid.gov /stories/sierraleone/fp_sierraleone_peace.html (261 words)

	Margai Suggests an All-Party Dialogue Ahead of Elections in Sierra Leone - Worldpress.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Worst yet, Sierra Leone is not ruled by democracy-loving leaders.
		The Sierra Leonean has suffered immensely over the past decade that the only thing we can now count on to ensure that we avoid repeating our recent past is our votes, and if anyone whether it be Margai or anyone else tries to disenfranchise the voters, such an action would bear a bitter fruit.
		The United Nations had over 17,000 soldiers in Sierra Leone as early as last year to bring peace after 10 years of one of the most atrocious wars in recent years.
	www.worldpress.org /Africa/2589.cfm (632 words)

	Diamonds.net News - Sierra Leone Sets Elections for July 2007
		Sierra Leone's President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah will not be running in the JulyÂ 2007 race he announced as the country set its first date for elections since theÂ United Nations peacekeepers left the country in 2005.
		President Tejan Kabbah appealed to his country's voters to see the elections "not as warfare between warlords but as a friendly contest."Â In a public broadcast the president set the date for the elections on July 28,Â as a demonstration of his government's commitment to good governance and democracy.
		President Kabbah was elected in a landslide in May 2002 at a time when peacekeepers were present in Sierra Leone.
	www.diamonds.net /news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=15403 (247 words)

	Sierra leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sierra Leone: Security Council Extends Mandate of UN Office As Elections Approach
		Sierra Leone: UN Extends Mandate Ahead of Elections
		Sierra Leone: UN Extends Mandate Ahead of 2007 Elections
	www.insideafrica.com /html/sierra_leone.html (520 words)

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