Sierra Leone's Rebel Without a Home. As Sanctions on Liberia Loom, Once-Feared 'Mosquito' Is Under Pressure to Leave. January 22, 2001. By ...

A family member says a former rebel leader serving a 50-year sentence in Rwanda for war crimes committed during Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict has died after a serious illness.

The breadth and brutality of Sierra Leone's 10-year civil war was evident everywhere in a visit to this town, headquarters of the rebel Revolutionary United Front.

Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for dismembering thousands of civilians, died in U.N. custody at a Freetown hospital, the war crimes court ...

A U.N.-sponsored war-crimes court on Wednesday found three top Sierra Leone rebel leaders guilty of multiple crimes against humanity during the West African nation's bloody 1991-2002 civil war.

British paratroopers raided rebel bases in the jungle of Sierra Leone early Sunday, freeing six of their soldiers and a local officer who had been held hostage for two weeks.

A school in Koindu damaged during the Sierra Leone Civil War by RUF rebel forces. (Image by United States Agency for International Development via Courthouse News) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — ...

European election observers in Sierra Leone said there were “statistical inconsistencies” in the presidential results published by the electoral commission, which declared President Julius ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- A rebel group in Sierra Leone captured a front-line town as the government asked the United Nations Security Council to help establish a court to prosecute rebel leaders ...

European election observers in Sierra Leone said there were "statistical inconsistencies" in the presidential results published by the electoral commission, which declared President Julius Maada ...