A mortal enemy

摘要

In Most African countries, the fight against corruption is deemed important but hardly a matter of life and death. In Sierra Leone it is exactly that.rnIn 1991 the country descended into one of Africa's most terrible civil wars. It lasted a decade or so, killed tens of thousands of people and spawned a new lexicon of words and images that shocked the world: "blood diamonds", drugged-up child soldiers, warlords and militiamen amputating the hands of their victims for doing nothing worse than voting.