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.” ...

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 ...

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 .

Preliminary mapping of the sites of former mass graves and slaughter houses in Sierra Leone is intended to establish patterns of human rights abuses during the 10-year civil war that ended in ...

Mass burials are being held Thursday for those killed by a mudslide and flooding in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. At least 600 people are missing and more than 400 are dead after Monday's ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Seven months after launching his investigation of the mass killings, rapes and amputations that marked this nation's civil war, prosecutor David Crane assembled the staff ...

They’re members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA), an organization co-founded by pastor Mambud Samai in 2001 after he returned home toward the end of Sierra Leone’s deadly ...

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 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.

Michaela DePrince, Who Survived Sierra Leone’s Civil War to Become a Star Ballerina, Dies at 29 While living in an orphanage in her war-torn country, she dreamed of being happy, ...