During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... Lynette, 16, was abducted and held by the rebels for several days during which time she was given drugs in her food, and witnessed other abductees being ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone could become the second country in West Africa to decriminalize abortion, which health workers say would ...

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 ...

Angola ends mediation of DRC conflict +++ UN warns South Sudan on the brink of a new civil war +++ Sierra Leone debates legalizing abortion The United Nations warns that South Sudan is on the ...