Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

A Precious Gift for Victims of the Sierra Leone Civil War. September 27, 2000. By Lisa Frazier. The little girl's cries led the rebels to her hiding place.

Mohamed Santigie Bangura, 45, shows off the scars of the injuries he sustained during the 1991-2002 civil war in Sierra Leone. Since the end of the civil war, religious sisters have been helping ...

W hen Michaela DePrince was living in an orphanage during Sierra Leone’s civil war in the late 1990s, death was all around her: Her parents were gone, her uncle had abandoned her, and she ...

Sierra Leone has experienced substantial economic growth in recent years, although the ruinous effects of the civil war continue to be felt. The country is also rich in diamonds and other minerals.

In our series of letters from African journalists, Umaru Fofana looks back at how reporting on Sierra Leone's civil war 25 years ago got personal and what dangers correspondents still face today.

They’re members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA), an organization co-founded by pastor Mambud Samai in 2001 after he returned home toward the end of Sierra Leone’s deadly ...

Sierra Leone held its first presidential elections Saturday since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew two years ago, ... diamond-fueled civil war. ...

Born in Sierra Leone, she ended up in Hamilton after she was forced to flee the West African country's civil war in 1999. Canada is a great country that Sierra Leoneans need to know a lot more about.

Tommy Garnett's conservation efforts saved Tiwai island, securing its UNESCO World Heritage status, preserving biodiversity and wildlife.