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FT: Mining becoming the ticket out of Sierra Leone's poverty

Andrew Topf | April 13, 2012 | 6:45 pm Africa Europe Diamond Iron Ore 

The decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone brought two unforgettable images to the West: victims of violence whose limbs were hacked off by armed rebels as a warning to civilians; and the term "blood diamonds," referring to the diamonds plucked...

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