Salon.com: Scholarships for Virgins?, by Frieda Klotz:Girls living in a small province of Sierra Leone called northern Biriwa are being offered scholarships to college — but only if they can prove they are virgins, an African news website has
Nicholas Kristof on Maternal Mortality in West Africa
NY Times: This Mom Didn’t Have to Die, by Nicholas Kristof: On this trip through West Africa with my “win-a-trip” contestwinner, I was reminded of one of the grimmest risks to human life here.Despite threats from warlords and exotic
The Problem of Child Soldiers
A previous Immigrant of the Day, Ishmael Beah has written a powerful memior, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (2007), which powerfully depicts the sadness and tragedy of a child soldier forcibly recruited to fight for
Immigrant of the Day: Ishmael Beah
A Comment on Material Support to Terrorists
The New York Times on April 3, 2006 ran an editorial entitled "Terrorists or Victims?" It begins, In Sierra Leone there is a woman who was kept captive in her house for four days by guerrillas. The rebels raped her