Tens of thousands of people died in the 11-year-long conflict in the west African country A man has been arrested in West Yorkshire on suspicion of war crimes ... war in Sierra Leone, police ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war, child combatants armed with ... instances in which children recruited to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were compelled to commit abuses under threat ...

Since the reinstatement of Kabbah, the AFRC has joined forces with the RUF to wage a war against ECOMOG and the Kabbah government. Since independence in 1961, Sierra Leone has endured a series of ...

International judges have found former Liberian leader Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the ... influence over the Sierra Leonean RUF rebels, but this fell short ...

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Sierra Leone provides an interesting case study on the assessment of crime1 and the criminal justice system. As a country in transition from one-party authoritarianism and 11 years of a fratricidal ...

The 15 members of the council expressed concern that rebels of the United Revolutionary Front (RUF) were not adhering to a cease-fire accord signed with the Sierra Leone government in Abuja on ...

The country's former leader Charles Taylor was, however, convicted in 2012 of committing war crimes in neighbouring Sierra Leone. By Jonathan Paye-Layleh, Monrovia In 2008, Liberia's post-war ...

The RPCA has pioneered the Longitudinal Study of War-affected Youth (LSWAY) that began in 2002 at the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Funded through multiple National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH ...