Liberia's President, Charles Taylor, on Friday announced the reopening of its borders with neighbouring Sierra Leone and Guinea, the pro-government Radio Liberia International (RLI) reported.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned for the safety of seven Sierra Leonean journalists, all longtime critics of the government who received identical anonymous death threats during the last week.
The human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) in a new report, is urging the international community to honour its commitments to Sierra Leoneans and bring to justice the perpetrators of serious rights abuses there.
Fifteen months after British troops intervened in the Sierra Leone crisis, much has changed for the better. To achieve this, the British, who ruled Sierra Leone as a colony until its independence in 1961, have established what amounts to a de facto trusteeship.
