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Sierra Leone: Investigation on ‘missing children’ begins
From Awareness Times: The Commission of Inquiry, which was set up to investigate the children adoption brouhaha of a non-governmental organisation called Help A Needy Child International (HANCI), has commenced sittings at the Miatta Conference Hall in Freetown on Tuesday 1st March February 2011. The Justice Eliza Ade Showers Commission of Inquiry was set up by [...]
Sierra Leone: Alleged illegal adoption… Mother collapses at HANCI Commission of enquiry
From Awoko.org: Umu Jalloh whose twins a boy and a girl were alleged to have been illegally adopted by Help A Needy Child International (HANCI), collapsed yesterday at the government set Commission of enquiry sitting at the Miatta Conference Centre, Brookfields Freetown. She collapsed while explaining because since her twins were taken away from her [...]
Sierra Leone parents demand kids’ return
From News24: Scores of relatives of a group of 29 children whom they say were illegally adopted from Sierra Leone 14 years ago stormed the children’s ministry Tuesday to demand the return of their offspring. Families chanted “we want our kids back” and “return our children fast”, five months after government pledged to get to [...]
Commission to probe Sierra Leone children missing in US
From AFP (via Google News): Sierra Leone’s Social Welfare Minister Soccoh Kabia announced a probe Friday into “the unknown whereabouts” of 20 children he said were spirited to the United States without the knowledge of their parents. They were allegedly taken for adoption from couples who had handed them to a local organisation called Help [...]
Sierra Leone panel to probe 13-year-old adoption scandal
From AFP (via Google News): Sierra Leone’s social minister on Wednesday announced a new probe into a 13-year-old trafficking scandal in which 40 parents claim their children were illegally adopted in the United States. Minister Soccoh Kabia told reporters that President Ernest Koroma had ordered the creation of a three-man fact-finding committee headed by a [...]
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