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	Keeping the Peace
		We were in the town of Makeni, the former rebel administrative headquarters.
		Makeni still has a U.N. presence in the form of civilian police, military observers, and a couple of civil affairs workers.
		Makeni is currently "calm and quiet," despite the absence of the military.
	www.slate.com /id/2093103/slideshow/2093137/fs/0/entry/2093081 (141 words)

	Makeni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also Makeni, Zambia for the suburb of Lusaka.
		Makeni is the capital of the Northern Province of Sierra Leone.
		It is known for its market and was known for its mosque until the Sierra Leone Civil War, when it became a base for the RUF.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Makeni,_Sierra_Leone (80 words)

	Guardian \| Panic as rebel stronghold scents battle
		Romatu Konneh decided to get out of the rebel-held town of Makeni as soon as she picked up one of the leaflets fluttering down from the combat helicopter swooping low over the Revolutionary United Front headquarters early this week.
		Makeni has been the rebel headquarters since the peace accord - now defunct - was signed a year ago between the government and the RUF.
		On the leaflet warning the RUF and Makeni's residents of a pending attack is a copy of a $500 note and a picture of a man with his arms hacked off.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4030518-103970,00.html (874 words)

	Conflict resolution, prevention, and transformation: Search for Common Ground
		Makeni and Mile 91 are northern towns populated predominantly by Sierra Leone's minority ethnic group, the Temne.
		As a result, Makeni is now home to a large excombatant population, comprised of former fighters who have chosen not to return to their home districts but rather remain in the town permanently.
		Makeni is the home of the opposition party, All People's Congress (APC), which governed Sierra Leone for 26 years.
	www.sfcg.org /programmes/sierra/sierra_celtel.html (990 words)

	Lawyers' Centre for Legal Assistance (LAWCLA)
		Makeni was the stronghold of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and after the war and reintegration process, ex-combatants decided to stay in the district.
		Although the country is absolutely peaceful the old adage “no justice for the poor” is still very much alive especially in the provincial areas and the social and economic implications of the war is having a heavy toll on the people.
		This office notwithstanding the support from OSIWA is in dire need of an office vehicle and a motorbike to enable its staff members to move around the Northern Province and provide legal advice and representation to indigent individuals in need of the services of the Centre.
	www.lawcla.org /makeni.html (312 words)

	CNN.com - Freetown Part 1: Release - May 21, 2002
		Makeni was once a thriving market town, but in 1998 the RUF invaded it with the help of renegade soldiers from the Sierra Leone army.
		We have been sent to Makeni by Caritas, the agency responsible for getting abducted children back to their families, to meet Muckson Sesay.
		Sasko Simba was 15 when he was captured by the RUF and forced to fight in and around Makeni.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/01/04/freetown.1 (786 words)

	Makeni -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Makeni grew as a trade and collecting centre among the Temne people.
		It lies on the Conakry–Kankan Railway and at the intersection of roads from Conakry, Mamou, Télimélé, and Makeni (Sierra Leone).
		Founded in 1904 as a collecting point on the railroad, it is now the chief trading centre for the rice, cattle, bananas, pineapples, citrus fruits, and palm oil and kernels produced in the surrounding area.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050231?tocId=9050231 (335 words)

	Makeni - About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Makeni’s founders are Lee Atkinson and Philip Haggar.
		Makeni is named after a small town on the outskirts of Lusaka, Zambia.
		Therefore, a percentage of Makeni’s profits are used to support a school and orphanage in Makeni.
	www.makeni.com /about (249 words)

	Sierra Leone News Archives - October 1999 - Sierra Leone Web
		Meanwhile, BBC Makeni correspondent Sylvester Rogers reported on Sunday that AFRC troops, including a number of senior officers, have begun to surrender to the RUF in Makeni.
		In Makeni the food situation is deteriorating despite a a recent distribution, and some agencies are recommending a second distribution, the report said.
		Life in Makeni under rebel control is "appalling" with no central command, while rival AFRC factions war with one another in the north of the country, Forestry Department employee Abubakar Sesay told the BBC on Wednesday after returning to Freetown.
	www.sierra-leone.org /slnews1099.html (16041 words)

	Operation Classroom - Makeni, Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Allusign was the prefect [ class president] of Form III at the UMC Secondary School in Makeni.
		The workshop was presented in the UMC church in Makeni.
		The school is open from 4 PM to 6 PM and teaches the 'street children' of Makeni.
	members.aol.com /saloneoc/makeni.html (445 words)

	Women's Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The northern town of Makeni was the RUF headquarters in the latter years of the war.
		In Makeni, for example, there are no separate cells for juvenile offenders and no juvenile court in Port Loko (the nearest court), making it necessary for these cases to be heard in Freetown.
		The average age of adolescents participating in the survey in Freetown was 15.6, and in Makeni, it was 16.1 years, with a combined average age of 15.8 years.
	www.womenscommission.org /reports/sl/pff.shtml (17109 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Sierra Leone road trip: Masiaka to Makeni
		The commander of the United Nations troops in the northern city of Makeni says he is a happy man.
		Makeni is the former headquarters town of the rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF).
		It is a dilemma which reflects the knife-edge peace process existing in Makeni.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1480657.stm (545 words)

	[No title]
		In early October, RUF moved several hundred RUF fighters from Kailahun to Makeni, the provincial capital of the Northern Province and the central transit point in the north of the country.
		Makeni, which had been previously under joint RUF/AFRC control, was subsequently attacked and taken over by RUF troops on 15 October.
		During the clashes at Makeni and Lunsar a number of civilians were killed, women were raped and there was widespread looting, including of the property of humanitarian organizations.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/security/s-1999-1223.htm (3711 words)

	Sierra Leone News Archives - December 1998 - Sierra Leone Web
		CDF sources said the rebels left Makeni in three groups, one heading for their eastern base, one moving toward Lunsar, and one going in the direction of Port Loko.
		Makeni residents who reached Freetown on Saturday confirmed that ECOMOG was in control, although some reported that the rebels were in parts of the town or that ECOMOG was defending the military barracks.
		Makeni was under ECOMOG control, he said, but outlying villages were in rebel hands.
	www.sierra-leone.org /slnews1298.html (19504 words)

	Sierra Leone
		The severity of the situation in Makeni is attributed to the fact that it has been cut off from commercial and relief supplies since December.
		ACF predicted that the "hunger gap" between the two harvests will be particularly harsh this year in Makeni as the population has no food stores and hence are dependent on humanitarian assistance for survival.
		The report noted that the nutritional situation was worse in the villages surrounding Makeni than in the town itself, because the outlying areas have been subject to more looting in the past few months (ACF - 15/08/99).
	www.unsystem.org /scn/archives/rnis28/ch11.htm (1640 words)

	Sierra Leone: President: Speech: AT THE SLPP DELEGATES CONFERENCE
		Makeni is not new to me. When I returned home in 1959 after my academic studies in the United Kingdom, Bombali District was my first posting in the then colonial administrative service.
		On that occasion a prominent APC member saw me in Makeni and said that I was to cease regarding him as a friend because we belonged to two opposing political parties.
		I was surprised by his outburst because I believed that the process presented challenges for opposing political parties to sell their programmes to the people on behalf of their respective parties.
	www.statehouse-sl.org /speeches/slpp-con-2005.html (5095 words)

	Sierra Leone Reports (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The rehabilitation is carried out at a low-cost housing development provided by the government in the 1970s for low-income earners at Kissy, two miles from the coastal city of Freetown, capital of Sierra Leone.
		This was the declaration released to MISNA by Ibrahim Andrew Sesay, Director of the diocesan Caritas of Makeni.
		The humanitarian initiative was organised in Makeni (160 km from the capital, Freetown) by the diocesan Caritas, in collaboration with 'Memisa Holland', to meet the needs of the desperate civil population, devastated by the civil war.
	www.parish-without-borders.net /global/sierra-l.htm (288 words)

	Children associated with war / Child Soldiers
		In Makeni, the Catholic Church has been running a rehabilitation programme for 250 RUF children for the past two weeks; although those child combatants are being fed and given counseling sessions, it is believed that they remain armed.
		Caritas Makeni is the biggest organisation on welfare in Makeni.
		The bishop of Makeni is involved in the release of the child combatants.
	www.home.zonnet.nl /psterk/sl-1997.htm (2857 words)

	Sierra Leone - UNHC: 01-22.May.98
		Government hospitals in Makeni, Magburaka and Kabala and health clinics throughout the North are overwhelmed by an influx of civilians suffering from amputations and maimings.
		The nutritional status of children under the age of five has deteriorated as therapeutic feeding centres (TFCs) supported by ACF in Makeni and Magburaka have reported a massive influx of malnourished children and are currently approaching full capacity.
		There has been an outbreak of measles in the camps at Matatoka (near Makeni) and Massingbi and medical agencies are concerned that there will be further outbreaks of epidemics in other areas with the imminent arrival of the rainy season.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/98a/0034.html (2245 words)

	MSF: Medical Co-ordinator Assistant
		Following the violation of the Lome ceasefire accord and resumption of hostilities by the RUF in May 2000, MSFH was forced to suspend its activities in the rebel held territories in the north.
		Since the security situation in Makeni did not allow a permanent expatriate staff presence, national staff carried out project activities.
		The present project consists of support for Makeni Hospital, which consists of an outpatients department including consultations, laboratory, dressing room, pharmacy, registration and health education.
	www.msf.dk /recruiting/ad4.htm (882 words)

	Streamingmedia.com: Retailer Uses Barix’s Exstreamer to Make the In-Store Audio Connection
		Makeni suggested utilizing French Connection’s existing virtual private network (VPN), and, after some industry research, identified the ideal standalone audio streaming client: Exstreamer from Zurich, Switzerland-based Barix AG.
		Makeni’s solution was based around its ProMotion retail scheduling system and additional monitoring and control modules, which now automatically poll each in-store Exstreamer unit, querying its status and displaying the results on a single Web page.
		Makeni also provides all streaming output of the radio station via the client’s Web site at www.frenchconnection.com.
	www.streamingmedia.com /article.asp?id=8923 (553 words)

	Khaleej Times Online
		MAKENI, Sierra Leone - “Peace rice equals hungry rice,” said Fatimata Kabia as she sat outside a storefront in the inland Sierra Leone town of Makeni stacked with bags of the staple food imported from as far away as Pakistan and Thailand.
		It is hard to imagine that the dusty two-street town of Makeni, some 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of the capital Freetown, was the base of a rebellion that terrorized the West African state for a decade.
		Makenis teeming marketplace was, during the 1990s, the best place in Sierra Leone to find all manner of electronic goods and equipment - looted by the rebels from convoys, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individuals themselves.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/todaysfeatures/2004/March/todaysfeatures_March15.xml§ion=todaysfeatures (786 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Sierra Leone Humanitarian Situation Report 09 - 31 Aug 2001
		Tensions generated by internal difficulties within the RUF when one of the commanders, Colonel Christopher was killed by Colonel Morris Kallon in Makeni, on 17th August, threatened to destabilise the peace process in the North.
		This resulted in a riot in Makeni and accusations from both the RUF and the civilian population that the UNAMSIL battalion was taking sides.
		CARITAS Makeni has also distributed tools and training materials to 150 war affected children who are currently undergoing skills training in carpentry, masonry, auto-mechanics, etc. in Lungi, Port Loko and Yoni communities.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/c3fd40f484377d1785256ac000501eb7 (4991 words)

	Guardian \| A promise of peace in Sierra Leone
		But the Nigerian peacekeepers dug-in around Makeni say it is true that the RUF seems to want an end to the war.
		At Magbenteh camp, on the edge of Makeni, 500 people displaced by the war live in crumbling mud huts without land or aid.
		At the Makeni headquarters the Nigerians' commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Oladipo, tells the RUF officers that if they will remove their roadblocks, as they promised weeks ago, "aid agencies will come flooding in".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4191758-103970,00.html (1005 words)

	SIERRA LEONE
		The leaflets reportedly warned rebels in the city not to resist the attack, and said they would be fired on by the government's attack helicopter if they did.
		It remains unclear when the pro-government forces might launch their attack on Makeni, or if the leaflets have had any effect on the rebels holding the city.
		Journalists at Mile 91 report many of the displaced say they fled Makeni because they are afraid of being caught in the cross-fire, which has already reportedly claimed several civilian lives.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/06/000610-sierra1.htm (280 words)

	Kidnapped Missionary Released in Sierra Leone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		His experience of captivity had not been easy, he said, but the only time he had feared for his life was when opposing bands of rebels attacked the bishop’s house.
		He said that the town of Makeni had not been destroyed, although stores and houses abandoned by their owners had been ransacked and the population had decreased.
		He said that two other missionaries in Makeni — the Irish Christian Brother Noel Bradshaw and Fr Dominic Kargbo from Sierra Leone — had chosen to stay in Makeni "to continue their service to the needy".
	www.cathnews.com /news/904/31.html (195 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Korban (20), a mechanic, is sitting in the outpatients' wing of the Makeni hospital dripping blood into a bowl on the floor while doctors sew up the stumps of his fingers.
		They are the daily tales of brutality at the hands of rebels who know they cannot win the war but hope to scupper any hopes of a lasting peace indefinitely by unleashing violence as random in its choice of victims as it is vicious in its execution.
		Makeni, a small town in central Sierra Leone, is where the leaders of the former junta fled when they were ousted from the capital, Freetown, in February.
	users.ids.net /~handyman/slnews.htm (6461 words)

	Rebel Action on the Kamakwie Road
		We hear that Makeni and Magburaka are empty of people as all have fled into the bush or to rural villages.
		Since the junta was dislodged by ECOMOG in March from its northern headquarters town of Makeni, hundreds of AFRC soldiers and their allies from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) have retreated to the villages with their weapons.
		He hasn't seen her nor some of his children since, though he has heard news that she is alive and what general area she fled to.
	hypertextbook.com /eworld/kamakwie.shtml (5449 words)

	Change Sierra Leone - John Leigh for President
		The numerous acts of crudeness and crookedness that were implemented in Makeni did not just happen overnight, in my observation. That conduct is the end product of tricks that had been long in the works as part of a Grand Design to retain the control of the Party by hook or by crook.
		The disgraceful politrics that took place in early September, is exactly what poverty-stricken local newspapers appear to have been hired to help sell through lies, distortions and abuses as ‘democratic’ to the general public. These ‘journalists’ and their crooked bosses should understand that throwing lies and insults at others will not change the facts.
		Blyden then goes on to boast about the quality of her so-called photo journalism. But the photos she published of my staff and I, are in fact, substandard, badly focused shots that are cloudy and missed the mark. Nevertheless, she did not hesitate to provide her own self-serving bogus interpretations for false propaganda purposes.
	www.changesierraleone.org (2946 words)

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