During Sierra Leone’s civil war, child combatants armed with pistols ... Abubakar, a 17 year old RUF child soldier demobilized in March 2000 was abducted outside the demobilization camp and ...

In 1991, a small band of rebels backed by the Liberian warlord Charles Taylor and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi crossed into the west African nation of Sierra Leone and ignited a civil war that ...

Britain sent troops to the country two years ago as part of a massive United Nations peacekeeping mission which is credited with bringing an end to Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war. An MoD ...

During Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war, it is estimated that there were: 2.6 million people displaced, 70,000 casualties, and upwards of 48,000 male and female children associated with armed groups ...

(CNN)-- Three former guerrilla leaders -- who helped command what one activist called "one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days" -- were sentenced Wednesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone ...

the former Liberian president who was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his involvement in the Sierra Leone civil war. After Johnson returned to the United States, his longtime colleague, Michael ...

The vast majority of former child soldiers have been reunited ... had one year to prepare a record of abuses in Sierra Leone during the civil war from 1991 and make recommendations to avoid ...

The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to Sierra Leoneans recovering from civil war, the Ebola epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located ...