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A few days ago, the last of the UN peacekeeping force left Sierra Leone , which suffered a brutal civil war between 1991 and 2000. (The UN mandate following the official end of the war in 2002 expired at the end of 2005.) The war saw the death of at least 50,000 people in this west African nation of 5 million, and the displacement of many more into refugee camps. Among those in the camps in neighboring Guinea were six musicians, who formed the Refugee All Stars band They toured other camps, [...]