During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... Abubakar, a 17 year old RUF child soldier demobilized in March 2000 was abducted outside the demobilization camp and forced to rejoin the RUF later that ...

No one knew what the lives of former child soldiers might look like. Perhaps they would become “an entire lost generation,” as the prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone described them ...

using children and other abductees to engage in armed attacks against Sierra Leone civilians, Civilian Defense Forces, and soldiers from the Economic Community Cease-fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG ...

To accomplish this, child soldiers were often drugged ... that youths don't have very much power in small villages in Sierra Leone, and they often carried grudges against abusive chiefs or ...

Fire broke out inside Sierra Leone’s presidential building in central Freetown Saturday, witnesses and the government said, ...

British troops were withdrawing from Sierra Leone today, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said. About 200 troops have been wrapping up their operations over the past couple of weeks following the ...

During Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war, it is estimated that there were: 2.6 million people displaced, 70,000 casualties, and upwards of 48,000 male and female children associated with armed groups ...

Fire broke out inside Sierra Leone's presidential building in central Freetown Saturday, witnesses and the government said, ...

Witnesses reported thick black smoke and flames billowing from the top floors of Sierra Leone’s presidential building on Saturday.

Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war between 1991 and 2002, Sierra Leone experienced positive improvements in political ...

Fire broke out inside Sierra Leone's presidential building in central Freetown Saturday, witnesses and the government said.