"… as ordinary cargo.“The murder and mayhem of UNITA in Angola, the RUF in Sierra Leone and groups in Congo would not have been as terrible without Bout’s opera …"

"… ti-malarial tablets exceeds Guinea-Bissau’s GDP and oil smuggling rivals Sierra Leone’s GDP.)Ships from China and Eastern Europe dock in major West African po …"

"… cused Bout of shipping contraband weapons to rebel movements in Angola and Sierra Leone and to the rogue regime of Charles Taylor in Liberia. Bout and his associa …"

"… ongo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Congo-Brazzaville, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland and Uganda, according to reports by the Un …"

"… tions against Bout.“The murder and mayhem of UNITA in Angola, the RUF in Sierra Leone and groups in the Congo would not have been as terrible without Bout’s o …"

"… d Nations of violating sanctions against the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, UNITA in Angola and Charles Taylor’s regime in Liberia.Although intelli …"

"… , 34 reporters were murdered last year around the world, with 10 killed in Sierra Leone. Another 87 journalists were imprisoned because of their work; China was t …"

"… t has been called war during the past decade – especially in places like Sierra Leone and Angola – is merely an extreme form of criminality. Some of the arms …"

"… d by South African mercenaries, for example, altered the balance of war in Sierra Leone in 1999 in favor of the government.Arms shipments were bolstered by highly …"

"… gian and South African diamond dealers, a structure that was replicated in Sierra Leone.David Keen of the London School of Economics wrote in an International Com …"

"… he dealers and networks that had helped to fund rebel forces in Angola and Sierra Leone. U.S Rep. Tony Hall, an Ohio Democrat who sponsored legislation to place t …"

"… its, the deployment of U.S. troops on humanitarian grounds.The conflict in Sierra Leone, in which the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front displayed a ghastly …"

"… ing."There was international intervention aimed at stopping the bloodshed. Sierra Leone's demoralized and under-equipped national army was bolstered by Nigerian t …"

"… , backing up the Nigerian troops.This small U.S. contribution to defending Sierra Leone was not conducted by an elite unit of the Army, Navy or Marines, but by a …"

"… i and Liberia.Painted on their fuselages were American flags.ICI's role in Sierra Leone was to back up the Nigerian troops, providing transport and medical evacua …"

"… rican businessmen and ex-military officers. Their interventions in Angola, Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea during the mid 1990s aroused repeated concern, settin …"

"… ceration and deportation.Spicer's exploits in Papua New Guinea in 1997 and Sierra Leone in 1998 left a trail of judicial, government and parliamentary inquiries i …"

"… d information from the government about Sandline's plans to export arms to Sierra Leone in violation of United Nations sanctions. Until the row broke out, Spicer …"

"… e and Executive Outcomes colleagues intervened – particularly Angola and Sierra Leone – remain poor, unstable and underdeveloped, despite having rich resource …"

"… TA in 1998 – a ban later expanded to Liberia and the rebel-held areas of Sierra Leone. But only a handful of countries enacted laws to implement the sanctions, …"

"… ar currency – was replicated in other African conflicts, particularly in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But it was not until 19 …"

"… or U.S. $1.3 million and then moved into trading and mining in Liberia and Sierra Leone.By the end of 1999, Shefer was on the road to respectability. He had insin …"

"… ort for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), a rebel group in neighboring Sierra Leone that was waging a particularly nasty war to gain access to that country's …"

"… to the markets of Europe. Liberia's diamond sales rocketed in the 1990s as Sierra Leone's diamonds were laundered through Monrovia.In Liberia itself, the economy …"

"… orps that has been linked to the rebel fighters and the war in neighboring Sierra Leone. In 2000, Richard Holbrooke, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, t …"

"… t brutal of Africa's rebel insurgencies, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone. Before his arrest for drug possession, Minin operated with near impu …"

"… thingOstensibly created to challenge the corrupt regime of Joseph Momoh in Sierra Leone, the Revolutionary United Front never managed to construct a coherent ideo …"

"… economics, political theory and social musings. The origins of the war in Sierra Leone had more to do with the frustrated ambitions of Charles Taylor, a warlord …"

"… ic Community of West African States – including two units of troops from Sierra Leone – thwarted Taylor's attempt to seize the Liberian capital, Monrovia. An …"