On April 27, 1961, the people of Sierra Leone danced in the streets, waving green, white, and blue flags, celebrating the end of colonial ...

(CNN)-- Three former guerrilla leaders -- who helped command what one activist called "one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days" -- were sentenced Wednesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone ...

Julian Knox fled Sierra Leone with his family when he was nine. His astonishing Chorus in Rememory of Flight, at the Model in ...

By Jason Mitchell Once defined by war and blood diamonds, Sierra Leone is now looking to turn its rich but underdeveloped ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was sometime in 2001, in the warm, buzzing office of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. The war had ended, but the scars were ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone made significant progress in 2002. On January 18, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah declared that the decade-long civil war had ended, and on March 1, he lifted the four-year state of ...