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There's a disturbing side to the diamond trade--- the traffic of conflict diamonds, otherwise known as blood diamonds. This is Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone on the West African coast, a country still emerging from ten years of war. During tha

发表于:2018-12-05 / 阅读(119) / 评论(0) 分类 国家地理2007年

AS IT IS - Human Rights in South Africa From VOA Learning English, welcome to AS IT IS! South Africa has long been praised for setting an example of human rights on the African continent. The nation operates under one of the worlds most liberal const

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(76) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(二)月

AS IT IS - Child Soldiers in Africa Hello, Im Steve Ember. Today we take you to Africa. First stop Sierra Leone, where the Child Soldiers Initiative is working to prevent children from being forced into armed military service. Next, to South Africa,

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 2013年VOA慢速英语(三)月

By Leah Krakinowski Diamond smuggling in West Africa has become a steady, almost untraceable source of funding for U.S.-listed terror groups like al-Qaida and Hezbollah, according to information disco

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA2004(下)--世界经济

By Kari Barber Dakar 29 December 2006 The West African diamond industry was thrust into the limelight this year with the Hollywood movie Blood Diamond. The film depicts atrocities committed during Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war. Some analysts say

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By Selah Hennessy Dakar 04 June 2007 The former president of Liberia, Charles Taylor, has boycotted the first day of his war crimes trial in The Hague, saying he does not believe the proceedings will be fair. Mr. Taylor still has supporters in Liberi

发表于:2019-01-11 / 阅读(142) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(六月)

By Kari Barber Freetown 07 September 2007 Sierra Leone's election officials say all preparations have been completed and the country is set for the presidential runoffs Saturday. Vice President Solomon Berewa will face opposition candidate Ernest Kor

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Sierra Leone hopes to become Africa's biggest exporter of iron ore with the opening of a new mine in the central Tonkolili district. Geologists say the new mine holds more then five billion tons of iron ore. Before mining can begin at Tonkolili, geol

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Sierra Leone is working to preserve the ecosystem of coastal mangrove swamps that are threatened by people collecting firewood and harvesting salt. Harvesting salt along the coast of West Africa is an age-old business. But today conservationists say

发表于:2019-01-13 / 阅读(56) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2010年(三月)

Former British Prime Minister Calls for Increased Investment in Sierra Leone Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he came to Sierra Leone to follow up on his initiatives to help the country. This is all part of the initiative we have here in

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(51) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2011年(六月)

WHO: Number of New Ebola Cases in West Africa Levels Off The World Health Organization said the number of new Ebola infections in West Africa is about the same as it was the week before, with a rise in some areas and a decline in others. Reports from

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(75) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(十一月)

West Africa Hopes to Contain Ebola by December 西非希望在12月份控制埃博拉病毒 WASHINGTON West African leaders hope to contain the spread the Ebola virus by December of this year, but say it can only be done with robust international hel

发表于:2019-01-14 / 阅读(52) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2014年(十月)

Africa Set to Continue Growth Except in Ebola-Infected Areas World Bank figures are beginning to confirm the impact of the crisis on the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. New data shows the service sectors of the three countries have bee

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But let me split sub-Saharan Africa. 下面把撒哈拉以南非洲地区分解成各个国家。 Health is there and better health is up there. 分布靠上边的国家拥有更高的健康水平。 I can go here and I can split sub-Saharan Africa i

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By Naomi Schwarz Freetown 09 August 2007 In a densely populated, ramshackle neighborhood of Freetown, in Sierra Leone, Hariatu Turay is battling for a seat in parliament, one of only 64 women running out of more than 500 candidates. Naomi Schwarz vis

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By Catherine Maddux Washingron 10 April 2006 Maxwell Fornah, and Musa Vandi, who are both war amputees, battle for the ball in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Saturday, April, 1, 2006 The arrest of former Lib

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 04 December 2007 Diamonds from Sierra Leone have fueled the country's gruesome civil war and enriched warlords. Now, the government and activists are trying to make sure the profits from Sierra Leone's post-conflict diamonds he

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- A critically ill doctor diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus infection in Sierra Leone arrived Saturday in the United States for treatment, the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he will undergo treatment, confir

发表于:2019-02-07 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

By Kane Farabaugh New York 20 September 2007 Government corruption and control of the diamond industry fueled the civil war that erupted in Sierra Leone in 1991. By the end of the decade, fighting had spread throughout the African country and includ

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The spread of Ebola 埃博拉的扩展 Bridges or walls 疏通还是围堵 A panicky response in the West may worsen conditions in west Africa 西方国家担心西非的疫情会进一步恶化 THE death toll from Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra

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学英语单词
all ticket
amortization loan
anti-backlash driving
antihomomorphism
arsenomethane
Bacaeroides fragilis
baeocystin
batch processing mode
birdnesting
borrower's bank
bus number
butyric
caloriducts
canceremia
central module
chopper phase
classification of ships
confianza
cordwood steam turbine
data-cube
Delivered energy
dimethyldiphenyl thiuram disulfide
dip logger
divergence of vector-valued function
dolfoes
double pole single-throw
Dvin
ECCM improvement factor
ecors
electron motion
energy synthesis
engaging element
epigraphic, epigraphiccal
Epomops
erythroplastic
false curvature
fingerprint remover
Froehlich's syndrome
Gibeline
greenwich villager
hexagon configuration
higry pigry
histamine H2 receptor blockader
holddown groove
hypoalbuminemia
initialism
intelligent terminals
interruption of production
kaiserstrasses
keeshond dog
keratoectasia
Kriss Kringle
laminated glass partition wall
linearly dependent vector
lingel
load-carrying winding
Luciopercinae
mason
menary
Menkalinan
microscopical section
mobile operating system
monoclinic structure
mouthbrooders
myotis formosus
Neo-Plasmocide
neutron burst
non-production
NTB Action Desk
odontoplasts
output shaft rotation range
outside light
p-p ripple
paraffin ethods
particulate nitrogen in seawater
pertinacy
phototropic glass
pike cichlids
plumfields
pre-digested
preyntyce
quasicompact set
rated capacity limiter
reduced wave equation
retroanalysis
Rydöbruk
saltation ash
severely errored cell bolck ratio (secbr)
shedding cargo
small freeboard
special interrogatories
SSBP
Stark quantum beat
substituted power
surface nano-crystallization
swirl pulverized coal burner
tooth papilla
uncloying
unhelming
uterus bilocularis
WRA (Water Research Association)
zirconyl hydroxide