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.

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 ...

HELSINKI - A trial has started in Finland for a Sierra Leone man charged with committing serious war crimes, including several murders, and crimes against humanity during Liberia’s bloody second ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has appealed his war crimes and crimes against humanity convictions and his 50-year sentence, calling them a miscarriage of justice.

She is the author of The Bite of the Mango, an autobiographical book about life during the 10-year Sierra Leone civil war. She suffered many injuries including the loss of her hands, which were ...

William Boyd, in his New York Times review of Ishmael Beah's acclaimed 2007 memoir, A Long Way Gone, about being a child soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war, writes wonderingly about how ...

Former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor is was sentenced today in The Hague to 50 years in prison for his role in Sierra Leone's bloody, 11-year civil war. The war may be over, but the scars remain.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Umaru Fofana looks back at how reporting on Sierra Leone's civil war 25 years ago got personal and what dangers correspondents still face today.

Jan 7 (Reuters) - Prosecutors will call their first witnesses to the stand on Monday in the delayed trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, charged with orchestrating atrocities in ...