Sierra Leone this week completed a five-year programme to disarm and rehabilitate more than 70Â 000 combatants who took part in the country's brutal civil war. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah officially dissolved the National Committee for Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration at a ceremony on Tuesday.
It is a measure of the frustration people in Sierra Leone feel about corruption that a rap album dealing with this subject has topped the country's music charts. Sierra Leone has become notorious for widespread corruption in the public and private sectors and the public has lost confidence in an anti-corruption commission.
