The U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone ... a civil war that lasted from March 1991 to January 2002. They were arrested in March 2003, said Peter Anderson, spokesman for the U.N. court. The rebels ...

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 ...

and marked the most intensive and concentrated period of human rights violations in Sierra Leone's eight-year civil war. As the rebels took control of street after street, they turned their ...

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 ...

[AFP] Sierra Leone's UN-backed ... early release to a former rebel leader in prison for crimes against humanity committed during the country's brutal civil war. Augustine Gbao, 72, a former ...

Young ex-combatants with rebel group Movement for Democracy in Liberia head for UN disarmament point run by Bangladeshi troops. Taken during the first phase of the disarmament programme. Buchanan ...

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 ...

LURD fighters set off from Tubmanberg for an attack on Monrovia, Liberia. A lack of transport meant the attack is made on foot. Monrovia lies over 35 miles away, and the road is laid with ambushes.

The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to Sierra Leoneans recovering from civil war, the Ebola epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located ...