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Hunger strike journalist wins right to stay in UK

By Press Gazette - 26 August

Farah Williams was supported by the NUJ throughout his 23 day ordeal.

Forgotten victims still suffering

By Tania Bernath - 22 June

A third of women were victims of sexual violence during Sierra Leone's civil war

'A war of unimaginable atrocities'

By Joe N'Damena - 22 June

Joe N'Damena, who was responsible for aid distribution at a Methodist church in Freetown, describes the 1999 rebel attack that brought Sierra Leone's brutal civil war to the capital.

The end of lawlessness

By Tom Marchbanks - 22 June

Arnauld Akodjenou, the former head of the UN mission to Sierra Leone, talks to newstatesman.com about civil war, Charles Taylor, diamonds and how Tony Blair saved his life

Ken Livingstone