A former child soldier from Sierra Leone who dodged deportation from Canada for a decade has been sentenced to five months in ...

BANDAJUMA, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At an age when they should be playing basketball with the other kids, two teenaged boys have chosen to sit it out on the bench, staring blankly ahead with troubled ...

Nelson Kargbo was 11 when he was forced at gunpoint to become a child soldier for a brutal revolutionary insurgency in the west African country of Sierra Leone. He was injected daily with a mixture of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Tonight, Ishmael Beah will read from his debut novel, Radiance of Tomorrow, at Town Hall. Anyone who’s read Beah’s memoir about life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone knows that’s what we call a ...