British journalist Katrina Manson, 28, has worked as a reporter in Britain, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and several other African countries. She has been based in Sierra Leone for the past year working for Reuters and covered the recent presidential election in the former British colony which is trying to rebuild after a 1991-2002 civil war. In the following story slugged WITNESS-LEONE/CHIEF and headlined "WITNESS - Did I just marry an African chief?" she describes her adventures on a tour of remote parts of Sierra Leone.

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