Sierra Leone marked its first National Day of Remembrance on Sunday in honor of the victims of the country’s ten year civil ...

Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio apologized on Sunday to victims of the country's 1991-2002 civil war that killed ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. When Sierra Leone-born Ishmael Beah came to the United States in 1998, he said, he met ignorance.

Dan Lanning is for the people. It’s one of his many calling cards, from showcasing his day-to-day coaching style with “Ducks vs Them”... For University of Oregon student and football equipment manager ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for hacking off the limbs, lips and ears of civilians, died in U.N. custody at a ...

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

Joseph Sakendu Jones Jr. is a student at the University of Arizona, majoring in political science. He originally is from Sierra Leone, West Africa, and came to the United States as a refugee in 2000.

The RPCA has pioneered the Longitudinal/Intergenerational Study of War that began in 2002 at the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war. We are investigating how toxic ...

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's U.N-backed Special Court convicted two former leaders of a pro-government militia on Thursday for war crimes, but acquitted them of some of the most serious charges of ...

Lagos-based architects Oshinowo Studio have revealed a new memorial design commissioned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to honor the fallen of the Sierra Leone Carrier Corps during ...