By: Alusine Rehme Wilson In every community all over Sierra Leone, there is a number of youths occupying isolated areas serving as their dwelling, a hub to socialize and a point to reconnect with peers. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report points out that many of the dire conditions that gave rise to the conflict in 1991 still remain. As in the late 1980s, many young adults continue to occupy urban ghettoes where they languish in a twilight zone of unemployment and despair, the report states. The Media Reform Coordinating Group – Sierra Leone (MRCG-SL) with support from the Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund (ATJLF) sounded voices of youths in hideouts (ghettos) in some parts of the north to unravel some of the greatest challenges that they face. Alimamy Fornah operates a local bar for palm-wine at Sowulia village near Binkolo town in Bombali district which he said he inherited from his late father who was killed during the civil war in Sierra Leone. “I grew up i...
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