2001-07-23 04:00:00 PDT Tongo, Sierra Leone-- Social worker Harry Kpange pointed to a round scar the size of a quarter on the arm of Andrew, a 12-year-old recently freed by the Revolutionary United ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, May 15 -- Gibril Massaquoi and Morris Kallon, until recently senior commanders of one of Africa's most brutal rebel armies, sat slumped in overstuffed chairs in their ...

A U.N. attempt to take charge of security in the West African country of Sierra Leone has exploded in violence, with rebels killing seven peacekeepers, all Kenyans, and taking hostage at least 49 ...

April 8 (Reuters) - The U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone sentenced three leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group on Wednesday to jail terms of between 25 and 52 years for ...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor again boycotted a court in The Hague that has charged him with orchestrating a murderous terrorism campaign in Sierra Leone, prompting the judge to delay the ...

THE HAGUE — A former bodyguard for Charles Taylor gave an insider’s view Wednesday of the former Liberian president’s rule, testifying that he funneled arms, fighters, communications equipment and ...

MAKENI, Sierra Leone, May 25 -- The children poured by the hundreds out of trucks and buses and swarmed toward the concrete seats of the rundown soccer stadium, afraid to believe that, after years as ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has challenged anyone to find a bank account in his name holding illicit funds or "blood diamonds" from the civil war in Sierra Leone. In his second week of ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's U.N.-backed Special Court sentenced three former rebel commanders to jail terms of between 25 and 52 years on Wednesday for a range of offences during the country's ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, Feb 11 (UNHCR) - With fighting continuing over the weekend between Liberian government troops and rebel forces near the capital of Monrovia, thousands of frightened Sierra ...

MONROVIA, Liberia, June 21 (UNHCR) - Liberian rebels attacked a refugee camp in the town of Sinje near the border with Sierra Leone before dawn Thursday, taking with them five local nurses and forcing ...