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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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
