narrator: the one referral hospital in the capital of freetown services a population of over 400,000 people. ibraham thorlie: good afternoon. narrator: though the hospital is severely understaffed, it is not the only reason so many people are dying. [ibraham t thorlie] narrator: and often, those patients who come too late are very close to death. [ibraham thorlie] narrator: : rather thahan watchg their patients die, many doctors s and nurseses like reba pay for r the worst cases s from theieir own small sasalaries. narrrrator: victor is one of the few lulucky survivivors in a p e where so many die. however, the government has just lauaunched a program providing free h health carere r prpregnant wom a and childreren under five.. [ibraham t thorlie] narrator: so where are the best and worst places to be a mom? for its state of the world's mother's report, "save the children" studied 164 countries and compiled a mothers index. at the top of the index, women have what they need to thrive: excellent medical services, plenty of skilled health workers, and opportunities for education and ad

he's the leader of freetown collective, a band named after a port-of-spain neighborhood that was oncee can't make no love song, live fast and we die young, they say we're doomed to fail. they say we're prone to violence, and i sink in silence. don't know what they're saying. >> anthony: much like a lot of reggae his songs call out the socials ills that have been disproportionally visited on the afro-caribbean population. >> muhammed: i see bodies lying in the streets nations collapse in the midday lord i need to cool my head. they're calling it a brave new world, freedom for brave new boys and girls. what good is freedom if you're dead. >> muhammed: if you look around my city right now a lot of people are choosing death over life because the life that they look at doesn't feel like it's substantiated by anything. >> anthony: in the freetown neighborhood now called belmont he lives with his 81 year old granny, neila nathim. >> muhammed: the thing is that recently we've had a lot of people, people who i've known, who i've grew up with who've gone to fight in syria, who left here. i mean

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>> one of the things that's interesting is they are so interested in so invested in freetown the forces arrived and they go behind union lines. any time a force came down to fight the masses. the proclamation of 1863 did give legitimacy to those that were allowing those military men who were allowing slaves to come and stand behind the lines and work behind the lines. april 65 is when the war ended. what happened to this leaves the next day? >> in some places like texas for example they were free into june and they never thought it would impact them in texas and that's why you see this gap in time. some people left the plantations immediately because of the notion of being able to walk free. some people went on to the next plantation to get away from the person who defend their owner and some people stayed. they didn't feel like they have any other place to go. there were all kinds of responses and it did take a bath of organizing by the societies who came down initially to establish schools and educate people for the vote to be part of the electorate and to prepare black men to become

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but two years after the end of war in sierra leone, i was standing in freetown talking with colleagues from different, local colleagues from different areas, and you didn't feel like you were in a place of war. they went, people stepped in. there was actual reconciliation process.pe there was accountability. there was leadership. and i think on that note, i think one of the things, the thing that's lacking the most right now for me is just the political will to step up and take a leadership position. because all the elements are there. and this is something that we can do. it is an incredibly complicated situation, it is a very sad and tragic situation that's getting worse by the day. but this isn't the first time that this has happened, and we've seen when we can get together and take action and unify that we can bring about resolution to these types of programs. >> excellent. thank you for that, steve. only fitting that we close with our south sudanese panelist, mario. closing thoughts. >> yeah. actually, i would love to see the u.s. continue to support for south sudan. one of the --