Worldfocus on former child soldiers, sex slaves recovering from Liberia’s war

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Worldfocus has chronicled Liberia’s struggles to recover from a bloody civil war that spanned 14 years in the signature series Liberia’s Long Road Back.

Some of the biggest victims of that era were young women who were often taken prisoner and forced to fight, or made into sex slaves. As Worldfocus special correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson report, many of them are now struggling to recover and struggling to forget.

(Worldfocus is a nightly news program and website that fills the void in international news coverage and informs American viewers about the relevance of international events.)

 

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