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Title: Sierra Leone's grassroots peace-builders: Keith and Ruth Neal, retired school teachers from Manchester, recently visited Sierra Leone, where a devastating civil war ended last year. They found people determined to rebuild. (Healing History).
Author: Keith Neal
Publication: For A Change (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: For A Change
Volume: 16 Issue: 2 Page: 8(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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On 18 January 2002 a peace agreement between Sierra Leone's central government and Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels formally ended a brutal ten-year civil conflict. This was followed by peaceful elections in May, when Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was re-elected President.
Yet much remains to be done. The Government has yet to take full control of the diamond mining area in the east of the country. Security has not been helped either by the on-going civil war in neighbouring Liberia and occasional incursions of Liberian 'rebels'. In January 2003 the United Nations still had over 16,000 peace-keeping troops in the country. Plans to reduce these to 2,000 by December 2004 are causing consternation to many people.
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