A decade of bloody wars for the control of mineral resources (particularly diamonds) has caused 3.7 million civilian deaths and 6 million refugees. The surviving population, deeply scarred by the mutilations and barbarity of the war, now lives in a state of abject poverty. Sierra Leone is the country with the highest rate of infant mortality (27 out of 100 newborn children die). There is an increasing problem of orphanhood, which sinks its roots into the deliberate destruction of the great African wider family, mainstay of social life in the villages, many of which have been completely wiped out by the soldiers.

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Orphans in Africa