Word: festus
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...advisers finally set off for a fact-finding mission to the Liberian capital, Monrovia, the commercial flight it was booked on was cancelled. Then a military plane the men commandeered developed engine trouble and had to turn back. "I'm sure you waited for us last week," force commander Festus Okonkwo said when he finally landed in Monrovia. "We couldn't make it, but now we're here." It's been a long time coming. Fighting raged into its second week in central Monrovia last week, and rebels took Liberia's second biggest city, Buchanan. President Charles Taylor promised...
...While Cameron's case creeps through the Tanzanian bureaucracy, Bosch's life is in the hands of Botswanan President Festus Mogae. He has the power to grant her clemency, but legal observers say that is unlikely, given the courts' unanimity. Bosch lost her final appeal despite the legal muscle of Desmond de Silva, a British barrister who has saved 35 clients from the gallows, and South Africa has not come to her aid. "Here we have what we call unbuntu, which means we honor our fellow men because they are human," says Grace Morgorosi, a secretary in Gaborone...