Civil war has raged in Sierra Leone for nearly a decade with rebels of the Revolutionary United Front vying for control of the country's lucrative diamond mines and its capital, Freetown, the site ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- A former rebel leader whose followers were known for mutilating civilians was indicted Monday along with six others by Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal.

In 1999 when the RUF overtook Freetown, the country's capital and largest city, much of the population fled to refugee camps in neighboring countries. Among the 2 million displaced people were ...

They raided the place, they took all the young men. I was about 13," Abu told Reuters in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, asking for his family name not to be published.

The civil war in Sierra Leone lasted from 1991 until 1999, and according to the BBC, it resulted in 50,000 fatalities and 100,000 mutilation victims.

Lagos-based Oshinowo Studio has unveiled plans to add a glass war memorial to an Edwin Lutyens-designed plinth in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Situated in a courtyard overlooked by government buildings ...

Oshinowo Studio unveils a glass prism memorial in Freetown, honoring the Sierra Leone Carrier Corps and celebrating resilience.

Michaela DePrince, Who Survived Sierra Leone’s Civil War to Become a Star Ballerina, Dies at 29 While living in an orphanage in her war-torn country, she dreamed of being happy, powerful and ...

Sierra Leone's only pit diamond mine has come far from its origins as wartime booty presented to mercenaries by a grateful military junta.

Based on qualitative fieldwork on traditional justice in Sierra Leone, this article argues that judicial roles which have emerged in response to weaknesses in the modern state system can be ...