FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- At a vast landfill in Sierra Leone 's capital of Freetown, smoke billows over decades of ...

She lived Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2004, documenting atrocities. "It was difficult to find someone who hadn't been a victim of or a witness to a war crime," she said. Watch Jim Clancy's report on ...

Koroma, now editor of an on-line Sierra Leone newspaper called the Patriotic ... and a civil-defence group called the Kamajohs, all committed atrocities. Le Billon also suggested that the vast ...

This latest rebel offensive brought to the capital the same class of atrocities witnessed in Sierra Leone's rural provinces over the last eight years and is the latest cycle of violence in an ...

Abetting Sierra Leone War Crimes Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday by an international war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, for a series of atrocities ...

Sierra Leone's eight year civil war has seen some ... thousands maimed and over one million displaced. While atrocities have been committed by all sides, rebels from the Revolutionary United ...

Zainab Sakoteh sits in the Kingtom landfill in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, March 13, 2025, a place she frequents to meet the cartel that provide her with Kush. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly) ...