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

Sierra Leone Rebels Free Child Soldiers. Gesture Is Sign of Hope in Peace Process. May 25, 2001 More than 24 years ago. By Douglas Farah. MAKENI, Sierra Leone, May 25 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...