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 ...

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 ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war, child combatants armed with pistols ... Abubakar, a 17 year old RUF child soldier demobilized in March 2000 was abducted outside the demobilization camp and ...

Research on child soldiers in 1998 ... the AFRC/RUF launched a war of terror, using children and other abductees to engage in armed attacks against Sierra Leone civilians, Civilian Defense Forces ...

But what does it take to turn a soldier back into a child? Show more Ishmael Beah was just 13 when war reached his village in Sierra Leone and he was made to flee. In the chaos, he was separated ...

Almost four years after Taylor was forced to flee Liberia, the neighbouring West African nation of Sierra Leone still bears ... which recruited child soldiers who committed atrocities, including ...

The U.N. Special Court for Sierra ... 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 connected ...

Brian Cole's childhood could have been tragically different. Instead, the star chef of Hearth in Perth is going from strength ...