In an address in August, president Ernest Bai Koroma reassured the commission of his government's commitment to enhancing freedom of the press.

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Apologising for not being able to attend the party, he said the commission had worked hard to strike a balance between the freedom of the press and the need to treat fairly those who found themselves in the news.

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The bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, in a 20 December 1999 press release, announced the establishment of a Capital Markets Task Force, in large part out of concern that certain international oil companies, such as Talisman Energy Inc. of Canada, may use funds attracted in the U.S. markets to help finance their corporate activities in terrorist- and slavery-sponsoring Sudan.

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