In the leafy suburbs of Oslo Amputee Camp in this northern town in Sierra Leone, a three-hour drive from the capital city of Freetown, survivors and perpetrators of the 1991-2002 civil war live side ...

Sierra Leone marked its first National Day of Remembrance on Sunday in honour of the victims of the country’s ten year civil war. The conflict killed some 120,000 people and left thousands more ...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday by an international war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, for a series of atrocities, including funding rebels in Sierra Leone.

crimes court on Wednesday more than doubled the prison terms for two ex-militia leaders convicted of overseeing hundreds of killings and mutilations during Sierra Leone’s 11-year war. An earlier ...

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The 1990s and early 2000s were a bloody time in Africa. Civil wars raged in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Hollywood focused attention on the war’s human toll in films such as Blood Diamond and Beasts of ...

When Michaela DePrince was living in an orphanage during Sierra Leone’s civil war in the late 1990s, death was all around her: Her parents were gone, her uncle had abandoned her, and she witnessed the ...

The Special Court for war crimes in the West African state of Sierra Leone has welcomed the UN's resolution (1638) unanimously passed on November 11, 2005 that granted a Chapter V11 mandate to the UN ...

Many of the migrant workers sheltering in the Beirut warehouse are unable to leave as they 'don't have their passports', a volunteer says — Joseph EID Not far from Beirut's heavily bombed southern ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Ducking into a Starbucks for a caffeine fix could lead you to a harrowing tale of child soldiery in the tangled jungles of Sierra Leone. "A Long Way Gone" is a novel by ...