A refugee gets ex-combatants, NGOs, military and police officers working together. John Bangura tells his story to Mike Brown...

Kadi Fakondo's job involves overseeing complaints from the public, community relations, and discipline and internal investigations.

The two women, from the US and Sierra Leone, quickly found they had shared concerns. Kamara told White-Baughan about her work with a grassroots community organization in Sierra Leone called Children’s Learning Services (see FAC April-May 2003). ‘She added that the children could not seem to learn due to trauma from the decade of civil war that had just ended,’ says White-Baughan.

John Bond hears from Africans who are risking their lives to end conflict.

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.