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South Africa
Latest info. I have is that their South African diamond mines' production and the recovery rate of diamonds has increased - hopefully this will be reflected in the financial statements due in August.
Sierra Leone News
"16 July: The AFRC Wednesday announced members of the Sierra Leone
delegation which will meet with the ECOWAS Committee of Four on Sierra
Leone in Abidjan on Thursday, July 17. The delegation will be led by Mr. Alimamy Pallo Bangura, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Also included on the list is Corporal Foday S. Sankoh, AFRC Vice Chairman. Other delegates are Mr. A. Manley-Spaine, Attorney-General; Brig. D.K. Anderson, Chief of Military Staff; Capt. Paul Thomas, Under-Secretary of State for the Ministry of Mineral Resources; Mr. S.B. Rogers, Ag. Secretary of State for Ministry of Lands and the Environment; Corporal Tamba Gborie, Member of the AFRC Supreme Council; Mr. Dauda S. Kamara, Ambassador; Mr. S.A.T. Bayoh, Secretary to the Chairman, AFRC; Mr. W.S. Bangura, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Alieu Kamara, Public Relations Officer; Dr. John Karefa-Smart, Concerned Citizen; Mrs. Ina Lamin,
Secretary/Stenographer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The delegation left Freetown Wednesday by helicopter for Conakry, Guinea, where a plane sent by Ivory Coast flew them to Abidjan.
Nigerian government sources told a newspaper Tuesday that Nigeria will do whatever it takes to restore the civilian government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. "It is obvious that Nigeria will be abdicating its sense of mission and responsibility as a sub-regional power, if it holds its arms and watches helplessly and unconcerned its geo-political environment being threatened by destructive interests," presidency sources told the Nigerian Tribune. Nigeria is in Sierra Leone fulfilling its commitment under a bilateral security pact with Sierra Leone, and as part of the sub-region's efforts to restore the elected government, they added. "From Momoh to Tejan Kabbah, those variously in power in Sierra Leone have solicited Nigerian security assistance, culminating in a security defence pact between both countries," the sources said. They said that Nigeria had also intervened in Sierra Leone at the request of some unnamed foreign countries to protect their citizens trapped in the country. Intervention in Sierra Leone and Liberia is consistent with the principle of Nigeria's foreign policy and in accord with the protection and safeguarding of its geo-political environment, which is a component of Nigeria's national interest, the sources added."
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