Fergal Keane OBE - Patron of The Kambia Appeal

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Fergal Keane OBE - Patron

"Sierra Leone's eight-year civil war was less a battle than a crime against humanity - one of the worst in recent times. Thousands were killed, tens of thousands uprooted from their homes. Murder, mutilation, rape, it all happened here.

Back in 1999, I saw for myself the brutality and destruction. Four years later, vital infrastructures, such as the district hospital in Kambia, are still in ruins and the people remain in desperate need of help.

Your support for the Kambia Hospital Appeal will bring doctors, medical aid and hope to the region."

Fergal Keane, BBC Special Correspondent

Fergal Keane - Patron of Kambia Hospital Appeal (Links to more information about Fergal Keane)

Fergal Keane is a Patron of the Kambia Hospital Appeal. He has many years experience of Africa and has reported from many trouble spots.

Fergal Keane is a Special Correspondent for BBC News. During his 10 years with the BBC he has reported from some of the world's major trouble spots, from Northern Ireland to Rwanda, and won many awards for his hard-hitting, often moving reports.

Fergal Keane joined the BBC in 1989 as Northern Ireland Correspondent. Following that he was appointed Southern African Correspondent during the last days of apartheid and the formation of the Republic. From 1990 to 1994 Fergal's reports covered the township unrest in South Africa and the first multi-racial elections following the end of apartheid and the civil war in Rwanda. In 1995 he was appointed Asia correspondent based in Hong Kong for 2 years, before returning to be based in the BBC's World Affairs Unit in London. In 1996 Fergal was awarded an OBE for his services to journalism.

Links to articles on Sierra Leone written by Fergal Keane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/from_our_own_correspondent/291187.stm
See and hear Fergal Keane's reports direct from Sierra Leone at the height of the civil war...[More]

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=360114
Appeal: Breaking the poverty cycle: Fergal Keane reflects on his vast experience in Africa, a continent that suffers on an almost unimaginable scale, but whose vitality continues to survive against the odds.
10 December 2002

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=360182
A forgotten continent that struggles with adversity but brims with vitality
"It is a continent where most people live from hand to mouth. They have few savings or resources to fall back on. Many eat only one meal a day, and go to bed hungry at night for at least part of every year in the lean months when the storage jars have run empty and the next thin harvest has yet to ripen in the dusty fields. This is not crisis; this is ordinary life, in a place where people tread daily close to the line between life and death..." [More]
10 December 2002

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=310156
Once again, the West reveals its brutal contempt for the poorest continent
The Africa I meet in remote villages and crowded shantytowns is a place of infinite resourcefulness
29 June 2002

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=85970
Sorious Samura: The reality television that we don't care about. From a talk given by the Sierra Leonean film-maker at the Global Village, Global Image conference, held in London
"When the rebels attacked Freetown in Sierra Leone in January 1999, journalists were killed and many others, quite rightly, left. I had a choice to stay and film or leave with them. I decided to stay –"
30 July 2001

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