British troops were withdrawing from Sierra Leone today ... which is credited with bringing an end to Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war. An MoD spokesman said 100 officers will remain in Sierra ...

When World War Two broke out ... from East Africa. The British Army also recruited 200,000 men from West Africa. This included setting up an RAF base in Sierra Leone to search for submarines.

A regiment of British soldiers find themselves held hostage by Sierra Leone's notorious West Side Boys. It is up to the British Special Forces to conduct a rescue on a scale not seen since World War ...

With the U.N. unwilling to stiffen its mandate from peacekeeping to peacemaking, and without any international body willing to commit troops ... the war could spread beyond Sierra Leone's borders.

As the war wound down in Sierra Leone, however, she saw an opportunity. Many child soldiers were being sent to Interim Care Centers, or ICCs, several of which used programming designed largely by de ...

The U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone found ... use of child soldiers and forced marriages," she told CNN by phone from Senegal in West Africa. Eight people have been convicted of war crimes ...

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 ...