HOLLYWOOD - Angelina Jolie is ecstatic after encouraging Sierra Leone's President AhmadTejan Kabbah to set a timetable for enacting new human rights reforms in the
troubled African nation.
The Oscar-winning actress arrived in Sierra Leone on May 9 and
spent several days meeting survivors of the country's civil war--which ended
in 2002--as well as their President.
Kabbah decided this week to agree to the timetable, proposed by Sierra
Leone's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Jolie enthuses, "The president has taken an important step toward
implementing the recommendations.
"I will be bringing more international focus here and coming back to ensure
that the TRC recommendations do not drop off the agenda."
The beauty, who works as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, was overwhelmed by the courage of the
country people.
She says, "The strength and spirit of the people of Sierra Leone have
overwhelmed me. I do not know how I could go through 11 years of war with such
spirit and strength and continue to fight for family and human rights in the
way that the people of Sierra Leone did."
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