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Between 1991 and 2002, the small West African nation of Sierra Leone was ravaged by a decade of war, which left between 50,000 and 200,000 people dead. The conflict was also marked by rapes ...
Twenty-five years ago, Sierra Leone plunged into a decade-long brutal civil war, made famous by the chilling practice of mass amputations of hands, arms and legs and the film “Blood Diamond.” ...
Sierra Leoneans head to the polls Saturday for presidential elections. ... Sierra Leone’s Civil War Survivors Rally Youth Against Election Violence June 21, 2023 7:41 PM ...
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 ...
Jubilant Sierra Leoneans danced in the streets last night to celebrate the end of a 10-year civil war that killed an estimated 50,000 people, left thousands maimed and shattered the West African ...