2001-07-23 04:00:00 PDT Tongo, Sierra Leone-- Social worker Harry Kpange pointed to a round scar the size of a quarter on the arm of Andrew, a 12-year-old recently freed by the Revolutionary United ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor appeared 20 minutes late Tuesday for his first appearance in court since his war crimes trial started, and his last appearanceof the month as the judges ...

KOIDU, Sierra Leone -- Sierra Leone's rebels are using the forced labor of children and young men to greatly expand their diamond mining here, despite an agreement as part of a fragile peace process ...

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor funded and armed a rebel leader in neighbouring Sierra Leone, one of his top aides told a United Nations-backed war crimes court on Wednesday. Taylor is on ...

An ex-Sierra Leone militia leader was Monday to walk free after serving a 15-year sentence, the first to complete a term imposed for crimes in the country’s civil war, a UN court said. The Residual ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, May 15 -- Gibril Massaquoi and Morris Kallon, until recently senior commanders of one of Africa's most brutal rebel armies, sat slumped in overstuffed chairs in their ...

A U.N. attempt to take charge of security in the West African country of Sierra Leone has exploded in violence, with rebels killing seven peacekeepers, all Kenyans, and taking hostage at least 49 ...

FREETOWN, Sierra LeoneFREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A Sierra Leone court on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a top ally of former Liberian President Charles Taylor who was recently found living in ...

Freetown — Liberia's former president Charles Taylor on Monday denied that he had ever eaten human flesh or ordered his fighters to do so as he answered allegations of cannibalism at his war crimes ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's U.N.-backed Special Court sentenced three former rebel commanders to jail terms of between 25 and 52 years on Wednesday for a range of offences during the country's ...

April 8 (Reuters) - The U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone sentenced three leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group on Wednesday to jail terms of between 25 and 52 years for ...