UNIDENTIFIED 1: From 1991 to 1999, Sierra Leone was in a state of civil war. During that time, 50 percent of the 4.5 million people of Sierra Leone were forced out of their homes. And thousands of ...

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 ...

Bates College presents Fambul Tok, an award-winning documentary depicting a journey of reconciliation in post-conflict Sierra Leone, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, ...

Sierra Leone’s ex-civil war fighters battle poachers. Former Kamajor militia fighters work to protect and breathe life back into the endangered Gola Forest.

Trauma runs deep in Sierra Leone. An 11-year war left more than 50,000 people dead. Two decades on, young people say corruption, poverty and unemployment remain rampant as they try to build the ...

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.” ...

A UN-sponsored war crimes court yesterday found three top Sierra Leone rebel leaders guilty of multiple crimes against humanity in the West African country’s disastrous civil war.

Sierra Leone’s June 2023 parliamentary elections are the fifth since the end of the civil war in 2002. They also mark a decade since the closure of the Special Court for Sierra Leone .

Freetown, Sierra Leone – Bashiru Conteh was one of thousands of child soldiers unwillingly drafted into a civil war that saw more than 50,000 people killed. It was 15 years ago and he was just a ...

Born in Sierra Leone, she ended up in Hamilton after she was forced to flee the West African country's civil war in 1999. Canada is a great country that Sierra Leoneans need to know a lot more about.

Sierra Leone’s Civil War Survivors Rally Youth Against Election Violence June 21, 2023 7:41 PM ... 52 Documentary; Videos; More From VOA VOAAfrica.com Programs; VOA Learning English; ...