Once a recruiter, Sierra Leone a leader in preventing child soldiers Roméo Dallaire and Shelly Whitman Contributed to The Globe and Mail Published February 12, 2013 ...

The child soldiers of Sierra Leone have finally put down their weapons — and picked up cameras. Myriam Denov, a professor in McGill’s School of Social Work has been working with former child ...

It's hard to be optimistic about war-torn Sierra Leone, but the head of the United Nations agency for children in that country sees signs of hope in the reintegration of 1,200 former child ...

Former child soldiers, forced to commit unimaginable acts of violence, have to navigate the scars of war and rebuild their lives. On Red Hand Day, stories from Sierra Leone offer a glimpse into ...

The child soldiers of Sierra Leone Al-haji Sawaneh's story is typical of his generation. Abducted by Sierra Leonean rebels as a child, he was forced to fight alongside them in the bush.

“A Long Way Gone” is a debut book about Beah’s years as a child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone in the’90s, when his parents were killed and the author was carrying a gun by age-.

In Sierra Leone the approach of Michael Wessells with the Children's Christian Fund was to, unbelievably perhaps, re-establish trust between young killers and victims.

Ishmael Beah was 12 when he was orphaned by Sierra Leone's civil war and recruited as a child soldier. He described the ordeal in his 2007 memoir, A Long Way Gone.

During the ten-year war in Sierra Leone (1992-2000), he lived the dramatic events of the kidnapping by the rebels, who were also abusing child soldiers for mutilation, murder and all sorts of violence ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Twenty-four soldiers in Sierra Leone were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, some for up to 120 years, after being convicted by a military court for ...

A military court in Sierra Leone has sentenced 24 soldiers to lengthy prison terms for their roles in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of President Julius Maada Bio last November. The ...