Sierra Leone | Newsnight

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A decade ago Britain sent troops to Sierra Leone to intervene in the country's brutal civil war. That intervention was decisive - the rebel forces were beaten and the conflict ended. But, as Allan Little has found, Sierra Leoneans now want Britain to help lift them out of poverty.

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