- Heading home So we stayed up a little too late talking about the day’s amazing successes. You should have been there! The meeting with the President, frantically amending the press release in the car on the way to the screening at the British Council (since it went from anticipated bad news to good news!) and then an […]
- Success! So the night is young (again!) but I think the day was a real success. Angelina Jolie joined me and our consultant Gavin Simpson and our 4 key allies from Sierra Leone in an intense and productive meeting with the President of Sierra Leone, his Attorney General and other key advisors. In that meeting, he […]
- Preparing to meet the Pres OK, so today was about preparing to meet the President of Sierra Leone and some key members of his Cabinet. This morning we met for two and a half hours to discuss it. This afternoon the meeting almost got canceled because the Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is overseas — he was supposed […]
- Arriving in Freetown, Sierra Leone May 9, 2005 In the air over Africa — headed for Freetown, Thinking about the goals of this trip…I need to ground myself, and you, in what we are doing here. Top priority is to get the President of Sierra Leone to commit to a definitive time frame for issuing the promised White Paper on […]
