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01 Jan 2004

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Satellite images of major cities

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— Sierra Leone Information System
This page will allow you to select various images of major cities in Sierra Leone.
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31 Dec 2003

Sierra Leone
Annan appeals for funds for post-conflict Sierra Leone

Report
— UN News Service
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is appealing for funds to help the Sierra Leonean military and police "quickly improve their overall capability and project a credible deterrence profile" as progress is made in consolidating peace in the West African country.
In his latest report to the UN Security Council on post-conflict rehabilitation by the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), he urges UN Member States to give generously to the meet the country's
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31 Dec 2003

Central African Republic + 6 others
West Africa: Sierra Leone and Liberia settle, other conflicts still bubble

Report
— IRIN
ABIDJAN, 31 December (IRIN) - West Africa could point to the consolidation of peace in Sierra Leone and the end of a 14-year civil war in Liberia as positive regional developments in 2003.
But the road to peace in Côte d'Ivoire remained rocky, even though the year ended on a high note. Just before Christmas, the rebel forces which occupy the north of the country, agreed to rejoin a broad-based government of national reconciliation after a three-month boycott.

Storm clouds remained on the horizon in Guinea, whose ailing president, Lansana Conte, was re-elected on 21

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This article does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations or its agencies. Refer to the IRIN copyright page for conditions of use.

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31 Dec 2003

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Humanitarian Situation Report Dec 2003

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
The United Nations family in Sierra Leone offers deepest condolences to the bereaved families of peacekeepers from Bangladesh, who were killed in an aircrash on 25 December 2003, over Benin. The UN has confirmed that two Bangladeshi peacekeepers working for the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and 13 from UNAMSIL were on board the flight, which crashed near Cotonou.
HUMANITARIAN HIGHLIGHTS

Upcoming donor mission

The UN Country Team are planning a Donor Mission to Sierra Leone on 20-21 January to promote the UN Transitional

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30 Dec 2003

Afghanistan + 29 others
The Federal Foreign Office supported more than 300 humanitarian aid projects all over the world in 2003

Report
— Government of Germany
The Federal Foreign Office supported 307 projects for humanitarian aid, humanitarian mine clearance as well as disaster prevention all over the world in 2003 to the tune of EUR 71.5 million.
Some 237 projects totalling EUR 52.5 million received support from the humanitarian aid budget. This funding was used to look after victims of natural disasters or armed conflicts and provide life-saving commodities such as clean drinking water, food and medication. The aid projects were implemented by German non-governmental
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29 Dec 2003

Liberia + 1 other
UN SG saddened by news of Benin air crash, which killed 130, including 15 UN peacekeepers

Report
— UN Secretary-General
SG/SM/9098
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

The Secretary-General was deeply saddened to learn the news of the tragic deaths of over 130 passengers, including 15 United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh, in the air crash near Cotonou, Benin, on 25 December.

The Secretary-General conveys his condolences to the bereaved families of the victims.

On this occasion, the Secretary-General would like, once again, to express his great appreciation to the Government

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29 Dec 2003

Liberia + 2 others
Liberia not ready for its refugees to come home: UN

Report
— Agence France-Presse
MONROVIA, Dec 29 (AFP) - Continuing volatility in Liberia four months after a peace pact was signed has prevented the return of hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled the west African state's two successive civil wars, a UN official said Monday.

"We cannot begin repatriating Liberian refugees in the sub-region when peacekeepers have not deployed throughout the country," Mohamed Siryon, a UN humanitarian spokesman told AFP.

"We would not be certain of their security if they are repatriated in the absence of peacekeepers."

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29 Dec 2003

Sierra Leone
15 UNAMSIL peacekeepers die in plane crash in Benin Republic

Report
— UN Mission in Sierra Leone
Ref. No.: UNAMSIL/PIOR 056/2003
15 Bangladeshi peacekeepers, 13 of them officers serving with the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL, two from United Nations Mission in Liberia, UNMIL have been identified as having been killed in a plane crash on December 25 in the West African country of Benin Republic. The remains of the 15 are expected to be flown to Bangladesh on Tuesday December 30. The officers were traveling home for the holidays aboard a Boeing 727 belonging to the Union Transport African (UTA) when it crashed off the coast of Cotonou, the country's capital
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27 Dec 2003

Sierra Leone + 1 other
Annan mourns peacekeepers killed in Benin aircrash

Report
— UN News Service
United Nations Secretary-General today offered condolences to the bereaved families of peacekeepers from Bangladesh who were killed in an aircrash earlier this week over Benin.

While some of the remains are still being identified, the UN has confirmed that two Bangladeshi peacekeepers working for the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and 13 from the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) were on board the flight, which crashed near Cotonou on 25 December.

In a statement released by his spokesman, Mr. Annan also conveyed his sympathy
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22 Dec 2003

Liberia + 1 other
UN SC dissolves committee overseeing bans on Liberia, sets up new body to oversee embargoes, adopting resolution 1521 (2003)

Report
— UN Security Council
SC/7965
Security Council
4890th Meeting (PM)

Adoption of New Text Aimed at Reflecting Changed Realities, including Taylor Exit, Peace Progress in Sierra Leone

Adjusting the embargoes against Liberia to reflect the changed circumstances there, the Security Council today terminated its bans on the sale or supply of arms, diamonds and timber, as well as travel, and dissolved the Committee set up to monitor them. At the same time, it reapplied the measures under the watch of a new body set up by the present resolution.

Acting under Chapter VII of the United

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22 Dec 2003

Iraq + 2 others
UN SC briefed by chairs of committees, working group on effectiveness of sanctions

Report
— UN Security Council
SC/7963
Security Council
4888th Meeting (PM)

As the Security Council heard briefings by the heads of its committees and working groups this afternoon, the representative of Cameroon and Chairman of the Working Group on General Issues of Sanctions emphasized the importance of regularly assessing such coercive measures.

He said the Working Group had agreed that sanctions imposed by the Council must remain in force until there was a change in the behaviour, actions or policies of the targeted entity. The decision to lift them must not be taken lightly. However,

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19 Dec 2003

Guinea + 2 others
OCHA Guinea Humanitarian Situation Report No. 5, 1 Nov - 19 Dec 2003

Report
— UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs


Covering the period 1 Nov - 19 Dec 2003
I HUMANITARIAN HIGHLIGHTS

Presidential elections

The Government has announced that only diplomatic vehicles or those with special permission granted by authorities will be allowed to circulate during the day of the Presidential elections on 21 December. The borders and the airport will be closed from midnight 20 December to midnight 21 December. The results of the elections are expected within 3-4 days of the elections.

Border monitoring

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19 Dec 2003

Iraq + 3 others
IOM press briefing notes 19 Dec 2003: Iraq

Report
— International Organization for Migration
IRAQ / KUWAIT - Kuwait Trains Basra Burn Medics - IOM has organized a training programme in Kuwait for four medical staff from the newly-rehabilitated Burns Unit of Basra General Hospital in Iraq.
The initiative, under the auspices of IOM's Medical Evacuation and Health Rehabilitation Program for Iraq (MEHRPI), is in close cooperation with the Kuwaiti authorities and the Saud Al-Babtain Center for Burns and Plastic Surgery at the Ibn Sina Hospital in Kuwait City.

The group, which consists of 2 surgeons and 2 nurses, works in the Burns Unit of Basra General Hospital, which

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19 Dec 2003

Afghanistan + 25 others
WFP Emergency Report No. 51 of 2003

Report
— World Food Programme


This report includes:
A) Middle East and Central Asia: (1) Iraq, (2) Afghanistan

B) East and Central Africa: (1) DR Congo, (2) Burundi, (3) Rwanda, (4) Uganda, (5) Sudan, (6) Eritrea, (7) Ethiopia, (8) Somalia

C) West Africa: (1) Mauritania, (2) Guinea, (3) Sierra Leone, (4) Liberia, (5) Côte d'Ivoire

D) Southern Africa: (1) Regional, (2) Namibia, (3) Angola, (4) Zambia, (5) Zimbabwe, (6) Malawi, (7) Mozambique, (8) Swaziland, (9) Lesotho, (10) Madagascar

E) Asia: (1) Bhutan, (2) Indonesia, (3) DPR Korea

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19 Dec 2003

Liberia + 1 other
UNAMSIL Press Briefing 19 Dec 2003

Report
— UN Mission in Sierra Leone
Near Verbatim
KEMAL SAIKI, Chief of Public Information, Spokesman and Major Aliyu Yusuf, Military Spokesman

Officer-in-Charge of UNAMSIL decorates Pakistani peacekeepers with UN medals

At a medal parade in Koidu, Kono district, eastern Sierra Leone, the Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, (UNAMSIL), Mr. Alan Doss, December 17 decorated peacekeepers from the Pakistani Contingent (PAKCON III) who had accomplished 90 days of flawless service in the Mission area.

At the ceremony, which took place at

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18 Dec 2003

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Force Commander commissions footbridge in Koidu

Report
— UN Mission in Sierra Leone
Ref. No.: UNAMSIL/PIOR 055/2003
The Force Commander and Chief Military Observer of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL, Maj Gen Sajjad Akram, on December 16 commissioned a footbridge in Koidu, Eastern Sierra Leone. The footbridge, which connects Pakistani Logistic III and the Pakistani VIII camp, is part of the peacekeepers' (Pakcon 3) humanitarian assistance to the people of Koidu.

Gen Sajjad also laid the foundation stone for the construction of a five-classroom block at the Girls Primary School in Koidu. The building is expected to be completed in March 2004.

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16 Dec 2003

Sierra Leone + 1 other
Sierra Leone army on alert over Liberian weapons

Report
— Reuters - AlertNet
By Christo Johnson

FREETOWN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's army is on alert after reports that Liberian rebels may be moving heavy weapons towards the border in a bid to escape a U.N.-led disarmament operation, an army commander said on Tuesday.

The reports highlighted fears that Sierra Leone, at peace since civil war ended in 2002, could be plunged back into instability if weapons from Liberia's recently-ended conflict slip across the border between the two West African nations.

Major General Edwin Mboma, Sierra Leone's

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15 Dec 2003

Guinea + 2 others
Sierra Leone: UN mission steps up border patrols against infiltration from Liberia

Report
— UN News Service
The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) has stepped up around-the-clock air, land and river patrols along the West African country's borders with Guinea and Liberia to prevent illegal infiltration resulting from efforts to disarm former combatants in Liberia's civil wars.
"It is particularly important to interdict attempts to smuggle, relocate and hide weapons and military equipment in Sierra Leone, at a time when UNMIL [UN Mission in Liberia] forces are poised to expand their presence and control in Liberia, especially towards the border areas," UNAMSIL said today.

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