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Healing Sport
Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Kenya: ways out
From an ethnically motivated war to a war of resources. The end of the Cold War presented developing countries or the new Fourth World with a new set of worst-case scenarios, in which the conflict was over who controlled the land and the valuable raw materials so essential to world trade. The civilian population suffered extreme brutality, and among the most affected were the young. For some of them, sport offers a way out.
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