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WRAP ECOWAS presidents arrive, meet Gbagbo, post meeting, Odinga sot
1. Wide of plane on tarmac
2. Ivory Coast officials waiting to greet presidents
3. Close of incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo's prime minister Gilbert Marie N'gbo Ake (first from left) waiting with other officials
4. President of Benin...
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USA: KURT SCHORK MEMORIAL SERVICE
Washington D.C. U-S-A, 1 June, 2000/Sarajevo, Bosnia - 4 August 1993/Sierra Leone - 24 May 2000
Washington DC, 1 June, 2000
1. Exterior of National Building Museum, memorial service venue
2. Pan across queue of people outside venue
3....
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Obama says he's concerned about Nelson Mandela's health
1. Wide of Senegal President Macky Sall (left), Malawi President Joyce Banda, US President Barack Obama, Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma and Cape Verde Prime Minister Jose Maria Pereira Neves.
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack...
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Lebanon - Evacuees arrive from Sierra Leone
A group of more than 200 people, mainly Lebanese women and children, fleeing the current chaos in Sierra Leone were greeted by about 800 worried relatives when they arrived in Beirut on Thursday morning (29/5).
The evacuees were among...
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SOUTH AFRICA: INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES: EBEN BARLOW IS GUEST
English/Nat
War in Zaire, Sierra Leone or Angola.
Wherever armed conflicts appear on the African continent, you are almost sure to hear that mercenaries are involved in some way.
The increasing link of soldiers of fortune, especially...
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Sierra Leone - New leader tries to impose order
In his first public appearance since seizing power, Major Johnny
Paul Koroma was prevented by a sore throat from addressing a
rally in Sierre Leone's capital, Freetown. However in a
interview with WTN, Koroma said he and his comrades...
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SIERRA LEONE: ANTI-REBEL LEADER SANKOH DEMONSTRATION
English/Nat
Rebel soldiers fired into a crowd of rock-throwing demonstrators on Monday as thousands of angry Sierra Leoneans marched on the home of rebel leader Foday Sankoh.
At least four people were killed and dozens were injured.
The...
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LAWYERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS COMMENT AHEAD OF TAYLOR SENTENCE
On Wednesday, an international war crimes court will deliver its sentence on warlord-turned-Liberian president Charles Taylor.
In a landmark ruling in April, judges at the Special Court for Sierra Leone found Taylor guilty of 11 counts...
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An American doctor exposed to Ebola in Sierra Leone is now under observation in an isolation unit at the National Institutes of Health. He does not have the disease but is being watched out of an abundance of caution. (Sept. 28)
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1. Wide of physician exposed to Ebola walking off plane while wearing a...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON MONITORING SIERRA LEONE/ZIMBABWE
English/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton says he is keeping a close eye on two political hot spots in Africa.
Clinton says his administration is working on restoring the U-N peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone.
He also described the...
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SIERRA LEONE: FREETOWN: SITUATION UPDATE
English/Nat
On the eve of a UN Security Council vote on whether to send a peacekeeping force into trouble-torn Sierra Leone, up to five-thousand people took part in a rally against foreign intervention organised by the coup leaders.
Coup...
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Liberia - Former Liberian President Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes
Netherlands - 4:3 Lawyers react to Taylor guilty verdict; file
FILE: Monrovia, Liberia - 18 May 2000
1. Then-Liberian President Charles Taylor walking past camera at airport
Leidschendam - 30 May 2012
2. Various of judges entering...
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SIERRA LEONE: REBEL COMMANDER REJECTS PROPOSED CEASEFIRE
Lungi Airport and over Freetown, Sierra Leone - January 8, 1999
Lungi Airport
1. Helicopter on tarmac
2. Airport building
3. Various UN plane landing
4. UN symbol on plane
5. UN workers disembarking
6. UN workers walking with officials...
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SIERRE LEONE: FREETOWN: TOUGH MEASURES TAKEN AGAINST LOOTERS
Krio/Nat Sound
Tough measures are being taken against looters in Freetown, the capital of Sierre Leone.
Leaders of the country's recent coup are seeking to assert the strength of their regime by cracking down on crime in the capital. ...
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SIERRA LEONE: ABDUCTEES (V)
English/Nat
Voiced by Louise BATES
During the war in Sierra Leone, rebels abducted hundreds of children.
Many of the boys were used as soldiers, some being trained to carry out appalling atrocities against their own people.
The girls...
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Liberia - Evacuation From Monrovia
As fighting continued in Liberia for the sixth day on Thursday (11/4), the first pictures came out of the stricken capital of Monrovia The pictures - taken from Monday to Wednesday (8-10/4), show gunfire and explosions rocking the city,...
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Int community on efforts to to move Taylor''s trial to The Hague
1. Wide Shot of the media conference room
2. Mid shot of reporters writing
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) J Victor Angelo, UN Resident Representative in Sierra Leone:
"What will be the impact on stability and security in the sub-region, not...
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Fears that people escaping ebola outbreak in eastern province are putting others at risk
There are fears that people who are escaping an ebola outbreak in the eastern provinces of Sierra Leone are putting others at risk because they aren't being checked for the deadly virus.
Isata Sanoh ran away from Daru, a small town in...
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PROSPECTORS SCOUR RIVERBEDS AS FORMER LIBERIAN PRESIDENT SENTENCED
As the former Liberian president Charles Taylor is due to be sentenced this Wednesday, diamond prospectors and dealers in Sierra Leone say they're still suffering the effects of his rule.
In a landmark ruling in April, judges at the...
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Sierra Leone - Rebels Cause Terror
The military government of Captain Valentine Strasser in Sierra
Leone is still struggling to contain a rebel movement that has
been active since 1991. Peace talks were held this week in
Abidjan, Ivory Coast, involving the Organisation...
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SIERRA LEONE: LIBERIAN REFUGEES UPDATE
English/Nat
After six days at sea, hundreds of exhausted Liberian and Sierra Leonean war refugees have finally found a place to dock.
Authorities in the Sierra Leone port of Freetown gave the boat permission, putting an end to their...
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SIERRA LEONE: COUP D'ETAT TOPPLES MILITARY LEADER
English/Nat
Sierra Leone's military leader is reported to have been ousted by fellow officers in a coup.
State-run radio says Captain Valentine Strasser was deposed six weeks before planned elections to return the country to civilian...
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Sirleaf says optimistic EU country will jail Taylor, meets Queen
London, 31 May 2006
1. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia, meeting Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
2. Various of Sirleaf arriving at news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia:
"We...
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SIERRA LEONE: FREETOWN: CRISIS UPDATE
Eng/Nat
Thousands of people streamed into Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Wednesday as pro-government troops rushed to key towns nearby to prepare for a feared rebel attack.
U-N peacekeepers, the Sierra Leone army and pro-government...