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Typhoid Delays Start of Massaquoi War Crimes Trial Hearings in Sierra Leone

May 20, 2021May 20, 2021 admin2Headline News, Liberia, New Narratives, Rights, Trial0 comment

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The Finnish court trying Sierra Leonean Gibril Massaquoi for war crimes allegedly committed in Liberia has delayed hearings by nearly two weeks because of acute illness of two of the four judges, including Presiding Judge Juhani Paiho. By Mae Azango, with New Narratives The Freetown hearings of the trial which began in Finland in February were to begin on April 28 but they have been pushed back each day since then as the judges recovered. The latest start date is now set for May 11. “The head…

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Liberia: Victims Of The Civil War & Civil Society Institutions To Protest May 18

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 admin2Liberia, Protest, War Crimes Court0 comment

Staff Report The Justice Forum Liberia (JFL), several Liberians, victims of the Liberian civil war as well as civil society organizations in the country are expected to assemble at the capitol building on May 18, 2021, to pressurize the state authorities for the establishment of a war and economic crimes court in Liberia. Maxson S. Kpakio disclosed that the establishment of a war and economic crimes court will go a long way in helping to curtail the culture of impunity in Liberian society. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which operated between 2006 and 2009, recommended creating…

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The Cape Town Fire Library Destruction Is a Devastating Loss for South African Cultural Heritage

May 2, 2021May 2, 2021 admin2Fire, Library, South Africa0 comment

Ujala Satgoor stood frozen, watching in horror as one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of African history and scholarship went up in flames this weekend. The Jagger Library at the University of Cape Town in South Africa — home to priceless rare films, books and manuscripts — was badly damaged in a wildfire that raged through campus and the surrounding areas. “The immediate reaction was one of dumbfounded horror at the spectacle that confronted me. And as I just stood there, I became even more numb,” Satgoor, the…

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Liberia: War & Economic Crimes Court Activist, Emmanuel Savice Denied Visa

April 28, 2021April 28, 2021 admin2Court, Liberia, War Crimes0 comment

Staff Report The Chairman of Liberians United for Justice and Accountability [LUJA] says he was denied a visa by the Liberian Embassy while on a visit to Monrovia. Mr. Emmanuel Savice said he was headed to the country to solicit signatures of a million-plus people who are interested in the establishment of the War and Economic Crimes Court. Savice is a Liberian-born who has scars of the war but now based in Canada with his family. In a statement on his Facebook page, he said ‘I was due to board…

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Liberian Feminist Invited At Yale Fellowship

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 admin2Fellowship, Korto Reeves, Liberia, Yale0 comment

By Andrew Jaye New Haven–A Liberian author, feminist, global figure, and the Co-Founder of the Liberian Feminist Forum, Ms. Korto Reeves Williams, has been invited as one of the fellows of the 2021 World Fellows at the prestigious Yale University. “A Brazilian diplomat, an Israeli journalist, and a British expert in the ethics of artificial intelligence are among the 16 women and men who have been selected as 2021 World Fellows.” Madame Reeves is the author of Inappropriate Medley: Stories of the Patriarchy, Pleasure, and Redemption, a stunning poetry…

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Student Unification Party Commemorates April 14th 1979 Fallen Heroes At Palm Grove Cemetery

April 24, 2021April 24, 2021 admin2April 14th, Commemoration, SUP0 comment

Monrovia—On April 14, 2021, the Student Unification Party (SUP) memorialized the heroic lives of student leaders who were shot by the police forces of the True Whig Party-led–Tolbert government, in Monrovia, after parading through the principal streets in the seaside city before climaxing their activities at the Palm Grove Cemetery on Center Street, where eulogies and remembrance speeches were given by the campus-based, pan African student body. Reports indicate President William Richard Tolbert issued the order to “Shoot them below the extremities”, according to a New York Times and Ann…

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Child labor rising in Ghana and Ivory Coast’s cocoa farms: Study

April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 admin2Africa, Child Labor, Ghana, Ivory Coast0 comment

Children doing hazardous work has gone up in the world’s top coca producers, study found. The use of child labour has risen in cocoa farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast during the past decade despite industry promises to reduce it, academics said on Monday, largely supporting earlier findings that were questioned by both states. The prevalence of children doing hazardous work, including using sharp tools, has also gone up in the world’s top two cocoa producers, according to the study funded by the United States government. The levels were higher…

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Liberia: War Crimes Trial Hears “Angel Gabriel” Ordered Children Burned Alive

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 admin2Africa, Liberia, New Narratives, War Crimes0 comment

Mae Azango, New Narratives Justice Correspondent MONROVIA, Liberia – Three witnesses appearing in the ongoing war crimes trial former Revolutionary United Front commander, Gibril Massaquoi told the court harrowing stories on Tuesday. The first witness, a 45-year old man, from the Lofa County village of Karmatahun, said “Angel Gabriel” as Massaquoi was known during the war, order his men to burn about 25 small children alive in a cook shop and burn others in a nearby house. “I was standing right there and saw it with my two eyes, when…

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Witness Accuses Massaquoi of Burning Civilians Alive

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 admin2Finland, New Narratives, War Crimes0 comment

By Mae Azango, New Narratives Senior Justice Correspondent MONROVIA – A witness in the ongoing war crimes trial of Gibril Massaquoi in Monrovia has accused the ex-Sierra Leonean rebel commander of burning one hundred civilians alive in Kolahun District, Lofa County in 2001. The man, the second of three persecution witnesses on Monday told Finnish judges on Monday that Massaquoi ordered the victims, including women and children, to crowd a house in Karmatahhun and then ordered rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to pour it with gasoline…

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Massaquoi Accused of Killing Almost an Entire Town

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 admin2Angel Gabriel, Finland, War Crimes0 comment

Massaquoi Accused of Killing Almost an Entire Town