In pictures: Cleaning Freetown


Arrest

A military government also introduced a national cleaning campaign during the civil war.

Even today, military police dressed in camouflage roam the streets stopping errant vehicles and police say everyone must take part.

"They clean by force," says Sergeant Braima Mansaray (right)

"If we find a vehicle passing we arrest them, or we make the people in the car come down to do the cleaning. But most people work and are happy to do it."

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