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Safo’s academic studies come from personal investment. Although she grew up in Nigeria and Liberia, she visited Ghana for the first time three years ago and met her extended family. Her impressions of the healthcare system have been extremely negative. “Every summer I’ve gone back I’ve had to go to a funeral,” she says...
...thought I was referring to America, try looking at Sudan. Or China. Or Cuba. Or Burma, Haiti, Libya, Uganda, Congo, Vietnam, Liberia, Pakistan, Syria, Laos, Rwanda, and North Korea. As of 2002, these countries all ranked below zero in their polity scores, which measure the degree of democracy minus autocracy...
Because the White House crowd remained obsessed with Saddam Hussein, they have ignored terrorist threats that really are “grave and gathering.” Failed and conflict-torn states provide safe havens for terrorists, but the Bush administration’s response to crises like Liberia and Sudan has been lackluster and glacially slow. The proliferation of nuclear technology could enable a terrorist network like al Qaeda to develop a bomb, yet the administration failed to sanction Pakistan for pardoning Abdul Qader Khan, the scientist who confessed to selling nuclear weapons technology to Libya, Iran and North...
...Steps Toward Justice SIERRA LEONE The U.N.-backed trial of 13 suspects indicted for war crimes committed during the 1991-2002 civil war opened in the capital, Freetown. Progovernment militia leaders were first to stand accused of atrocities, with rebels - including alleged backer Charles Taylor, the former President of Liberia who is currently in exile in Nigeria - scheduled to follow. The opening marks the first time an international war-crimes tribunal has convened in the country where the war took place. Some 50,000 people died during Sierra Leone's conflict. City Under Siege PAKISTAN A general strike brought Karachi...
...crimes court, the trial is a test of the Serbian justice system's ability to deal with the country's violent past. Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekaric said, ?We are very aware that this is a big test for our judiciary, and we intend to pass it.? Taylor Targeted LIBERIA The U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, who fled to exile in Nigeria in August 2003. Taylor faces war-crimes charges at the U.N.-backed tribunal for Liberia , whose opening in Sierra Leone was marred by allegations of bias lodged against...