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World Service,16 Nov 2009,25 mins

16/11/2009

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Surviving Sierra Leone's civil war Mariatu Kamara was just twelve years old when child soldiers came to her village in Sierra Leone. They killed her family and chopped off both of her hands. She tells Matthew Bannister how she has managed to overcome such traumatic events. Australian bush fires Sharon Mascall meets the forensic psychologist trying to get inside the minds of Australia's bush fire arsonists. Obama's half Brother Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is President Barack Obama's half brother. He is the son of President Obama's father and his third wife. He grew up in Kenya, was educated in America and now works in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. He has has just written a novel based on events in his own life

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