Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its ...

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 ...

The RUF rebels were known for hacking off civilians ... The Leonardo DiCaprio movie "Blood Diamond" is set in Sierra Leone during the civil war. Despite the country's diamond wealth, 70 percent ...

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 ...

Many developed problems in the Sierra Leone civil war due to poor healthcare access. During a 1999 ceasefire, Bo hospital opened a clinic to treat those who needed it.

Many of the atrocities in the Liberian civil war have been tied to belief in ... that in the civil fighting in adjacent Sierra Leone, rebels were said to have "a young woman with them who would ...

the former Liberian president who was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his involvement in the Sierra Leone civil war. After Johnson returned to the United States, his longtime colleague, Michael ...

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.