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Znet Article Gberie: Guinea-Sierra Leone Border Dispute

Znet Article, August, 15 2009 Lansana Gberie
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A necessary – and mutually applauded – security measure taken by Guinean forces during Sierra Leone’s brutal rebel war has since the war ended escalated into a border dispute which threatens the stability of both states.

Znet Article Gberie: Liberia's TRC Report

Znet Article, July, 08 2009 Lansana Gberie
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Over five years after its brutal insurgencies ended with the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) in 2003 and the deployment of thousands of UN troops (at a cost of over $600 million per year), Liberia is enmeshed in another conflict alt...

Znet Article Gberie: Congo Journal

Znet Article, May, 06 2009 Lansana Gberie
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I was last in the Congo in late 1996. It was not long after the horrors of Rwanda.

Znet Article Gberie: Sierra Leone Elections

Znet Article, October, 15 2007 Lansana Gberie
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The peaceful transfer of power from ruling party to opposition after democratic elections still merits headlines in West Africa. When this happens in a country with a history of political violence, coups and a brutal civil war (only recently ended...

Znet Article Gberie: Child Soldier

Znet Article, May, 06 2007 Lansana Gberie
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The most difficult ones to deal with, the earnest UN official told me, are the "teenage ruffians." I was talking to him in Monrovia, capital of Liberia, in 2004. A large UN force, 15,000 strong, was desperately trying to disarm the mostly deranged...

Znet Article Gberie: Blood Diamond

Znet Article, February, 13 2007 Lansana Gberie
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For brief, fleeting moments almost every decade now, the rich world tends to embrace Africa – a continent badly wracked by poverty, wars and related crises – as pet project. Africa as the object of the fantasies of the West is an o...

Znet Article Gberie: Guinea: on the Brink?

Znet Article, September, 15 2006 Lansana Gberie
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There is something almost freakish about Guinea, a West African nation of deceptive size (it is as big as the UK but with a population of only about 8 million) and a heroic history. It seems to have remained on the brink, but never falling off the...

Znet Article Gberie: Sierra Leone

Znet Article, August, 21 2006 Lansana Gberie
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Dramatic atrocities, extreme human suffering and the cruelties and psychosis of dirt poverty and slum life make for memorable documentaries, and the Sierra Leone civil war (1991-2002) combined all of these in excess. Man Den Nor Glady'O, a 57-minu...

Znet Article Gberie: Obasanjo's Nigeria

Znet Article, May, 22 2006 Lansana Gberie
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The signs never looked very good for President Olusegun Obasanjo. In early May, 42 Nigerian Senators – five more than is necessary – announced that they would be opposing the president’s ill-advised and irresponsible bid to...

Znet Article Gberie: Charles Taylor on Trial

Znet Article, April, 04 2006 Lansana Gberie
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Inside the UN-Sierra Leone Special Court’s massive fortification, at a spot close to its small detention centre, is a helicopter landing strip. The strip was furtively constructed about two years ago. When a foreign visitor wondered aloud ...

Znet Article Gberie: Sierra Leone

Znet Article, March, 10 2006 Lansana Gberie
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The UN-Sierra Leone Special Court began work nearly four years ago, and it has already spent more than $80 million dollars. This is mostly as salary for its mainly expatriate staff, amounting to $16 million a year – more than that for the ...

Znet Article Gberie: A Dirty War in West Africa

Znet Article, December, 07 2005 Lansana Gberie
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Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, “A Dirty War in West Africa” is about? What is it trying to communicate? Gberie: The book is about the very brutal, nihilistic conflict that ravaged the small West African state of Si...

Znet Article Gberie: Liberia's Elections

Znet Article, December, 05 2005 Lansana Gberie
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In the end, bizarrely, they made it all look like an anticlimax. Liberia’s recent elections, the milestone of the country’s difficult transition from brutal low-intensity warfare to peace, had been choreographed in advance to fit a...

Znet Article Gberie: Ivory Coast Crisis: Towards A Solution

Znet Article, September, 30 2005 Lansana Gberie
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In December 2002, shortly after a failed coup attempt and Ivory Coast's subsequent descent into full-scale civil war, I visited Abidjan, capital of the former French colony and once West Africa's sterling economy. Before I left Canada, an expatria...

Znet Article Gberie: Liberia Journal

Znet Article, July, 11 2005 Lansana Gberie
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The flight from Ghana began almost four hours late. It was the SLOK Airline, a new company. About seven months ago when the airline – owned, I am told, by a Nigerian politician who had it tactfully registered in the Gambia – starte...

Znet Article Gberie: Sorious Samura: Commitment And Voyeurism

Znet Article, March, 05 2005 Lansana Gberie
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On a trip to war-wracked Vietnam in the 1950s---the country was then enmeshed in a bloody anti-colonial war pitting patriotic Vietnamese against the French---the English writer Graham Greene had one of his mordantly conflicted moments. Boarding a ...

Znet Article Gberie: West Africa: The Curse Of Borders

Znet Article, January, 19 2005 Lansana Gberie
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At the start of VS Naipaul’s acerbic novel A Bend in the River, set in a disrupted post-colonial Central African state, the narrator, an Indian trader on the move, comments waspishly about “all that business at the frontier posts, ...

Znet Article Gberie: Sierra Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Znet Article, October, 14 2004 Lansana Gberie
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Sierra Leone’s South African-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) finally submitted its long-awaited report to the government last week. The main report is 1,500-pages long, and there is a CD-ROM version (Vol. 4), along with tra...

Znet Article Gberie: Liberia

Znet Article, August, 04 2004 Lansana Gberie
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There is a poignant moment in Howard French's excellent book, A Continent for the Taking: the Tragedy and Hope of Africa (2004) that, in its intensity and suspense, has the quality to stay forever in one's mind. French, a former New York Times Wes...

Znet Article Gberie: Sierra Leone

Znet Article, July, 06 2004 Lansana Gberie
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So much for international humanitarian law and justice… On 3 June  2004, the UN-created Special Court for Sierra Leone began prosecution of those it alleged bear "the greatest responsibility" for war crimes, violations of humanitaria...

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