| Freetown, long known throughout West Africa as a beautiful city. The people who live here have seen everything in the past nine years. The war - shorthand for so many different types of chaos and misery - has left hundreds of thousands of people without limbs, homes, work or schools and much worse, without their loved ones. Rows of houses in the capital, Freetown, have been burned and razed to the ground, and armed men have rampaged through its streets. But those who have survived have to keep living. Freetown is still a place where food is bought, newspapers are sold, cars move around and people stop to chat before heading home. And Sierra Leone is still a beautiful country.
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