FREETOWN — A mob of militiamen and onlookers burned a king in effigy, raided an Assonet house, threatened to saw someone in half and almost hanged two men on Saturday night. And it was all done with a ...

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that the first guilty verdicts handed down by the ...

Every day, Americans are confronted with news of horrors throughout the world which seem both vividly intimate and impossibly distant; helpless outrage is a characteristic emotion of the global age.

Members of Capt. Tew’s Company of Col. Angell’s Regiment on Saturday marched in perfect unison around a field off Slab Bridge Road, solemnly looked to the idyllic sky above and rang a round of shots ...

Joe N’Damena, who was responsible for aid distribution at a Methodist church in Freetown, describes By Scot Broch The war started in the far eastern district of Kailahun, a direct result of a similar ...