A year later the government declared the war over and my mother returned to freetown .
一年后政府宣布战争已经结束,母亲回到了弗里敦。
A war victim watched the trial of charles g. taylor , the former president of liberia , on a television screen at the special court in freetown , sierra leone .
一名战争受害者通过电视观看在塞拉利昂弗里敦的特别法庭上对前利比里亚前总统查尔斯.g.泰勒的审判。
A few thousand british soldiers , having secured sierra leone 's capital , freetown , in 2000 , helped end a dreadful civil war there too .
2000年,数千名英国士兵拿下塞拉利昂首都弗里敦,在他们的帮助下,一场可怕的内战也得以结束。
An hour east of freetown , I visited a village where local elders had just passed a law requiring all women to give birth at a clinic or face fines of about $ 8 -- more than the clinic fee .
In the portof freetown , the capital , sat until recently a converted danish rail ferry once known as the dronning ingrid that has been turned into a floating hospital by mercy ships , an american charity .
Straddling the sea on one side and freetown 's central business district on the other they provide ideal brokerage points for the commodities that descend the sierra leone river from the interior or arrive from islands offshore notably timber and palm oil .
They were eventually allowed to emigrate to nova scotia , but were so badly treated there that they moved on to west africa , where they became sierra leone 's elite , founding the capital , freetown .
The scsl is borrowing a courtroom from the icc ( a purely international body set up by the un ) because his trial might have been " an impediment to stability and a threat to the peace " had it been held in the sierra leonean capital , freetown .