A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war, child combatants armed with pistols ... Lynette, 16, was abducted and held by the rebels for several days during which time she was given drugs in her food ...

In 1991, a small band of rebels backed by the Liberian warlord Charles Taylor and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi crossed into the west African nation of Sierra Leone and ignited a civil war that ...

hundreds of former fighters in Sierra Leone's civil war, both former rebel and government combatants, have been crossing into Liberia to fight as mercenaries either for the Liberian government or ...

I was scared for my life, dressed like a woman and traveling in a little boat in the middle of the night across the Atlantic Ocean to Guinea. It was a death sentence, but worth trying. Eventually I ...

A phone vibration drew my attention to an incoming message – a friend had sent a message with an attachment and a note reading, “This is so ...

Sekou, 12, an LURD rebel, in an abandoned Tubmanberg classroom. His parents died in the war. He joined the group to survive. The country's infrastructure has collapsed during the four year civil ...

the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located in West Africa, Sierra Leone is a small country with complex challenges. Following a decade of civil war between 1991 and ...

The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington Tim Hetherington's photos: Liberia, Sierra Leone Pictures from the Libyan civil war, and a final image from Sierra Leone. Gallery ...

Sierra Leone is extremely poor and nearly half of ... but it is still recovering from a civil war that destroyed most institutions before ending in the early 2000s. In recent years, economic ...