Former Liberian President Charles Taylor ordered his militias to eat the flesh of captured enemies and United Nations soldiers, a former close aide testified at Taylor’s war crimes trial in The Hague.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The tribunal established to prosecute those most responsible for atrocities committed during Sierra Leone’s 10-year civil war will soon deliver its final judgment and become the ...

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.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The man who was once Africa's most feared warlord listened impassively to a litany of horrors couched in dispassionate legal language — cutting off of limbs and other body ...

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- It was a day that Lami Dusujaroka, who in 1999 lost both his hands to a rebel with a machete, never believed would come. On March 10, five people accused of overseeing some ...