Civil society in general and women in particular have a critical role to play in cementing Sierra Leone's transition from conflict to peace and development, a senior United Nations official said today.
Michael von der Schulenburg, head of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL), told a press conference at UN Headquarters that the West African country - which was beset by civil war until a decade ago - had become a "truly evolving democracy," with free and fair elections now the norm.
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