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...donors in Italy, including the pro soccer team Inter Milan--Strada had rounded up enough financial support to launch Emergency. Since then, the group has treated nearly 200,000 women and children as well as some combatants at its clinics and rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia, northern Iraq and Sierra Leone...
...already has. Mark Chisholm, a Reuters cameraman, was ambushed last year by rebel soldiers while covering the civil war in Sierra Leone. Two fellow journalists were killed instantly, but he and a Reuters photographer escaped. "Nothing could have prevented the ambush from happening," says Chisholm. "But afterwards, I wrapped my shot hand with my shirt so as not to leave a blood trail for the rebels. I ran away in a zigzag, I hid behind a log and then when help came, I emerged slowly, so as not to unnecessarily startle the government soldiers who could have mistaken...
Junger touches on everything from the war in Kosovo to the deadly diamond trade in Sierra Leone, the dispute between Greece and Turkey over the island of Cyprus to the moving tale of the last living whale harpoonist, Athneal Ollivierre, from the Caribbean island of Bequia. In doing so, we learn little about the greater geopolitical issues involved. Instead we see the men and women who are left behind when war ends and those who view forest fires less as an uncontrolled fire and more as a chance for employment and overtime...
Edgar has not been back to Sierra Leone, but has been able to see his father once a year when he travels to the United States. He retains a deep affinity for his homeland, and looks forward to the time after college when he can go back. “I want to return and help rebuild—I don’t know exactly what I will be doing, but I know I will be there”, he says. Edgar plans to study economics and wants to return to Sierra Leone before heading to graduate school...
With his surrogate country facing its own version of violence and attack, Edgar finds himself once again having to rely on strong family ties to get him through this difficult time. Though his parents are again in Sierra Leone, Edgar knows that “you don’t realize how much you love your family until you think you might never see them again…and I’ve been in that situation too many times...