Ask most people in the UK what they associate with the small west African nation of Sierra Leone, and it’s likely it will be one of three things: blood diamonds, Ebola, or the country’s civil war, ...

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — A legal aid organization says Spanish authorities have arrested a businessman with dual American-Belgian citizenship who is accused of enslavement and pillaging "blood diamonds" ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Spanish authorities have arrested a American man on charges of enslavement and diamond pillaging during Sierra Leone's civil war, a victims' association said on Saturday. Michel ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - The Hollywood movie "The Blood Diamond" about gem smuggling in Africa could hinder Sierra Leone's postwar recovery as its struggles to legitimize its vital diamond exports, ...

Supermodel Naomi Campbell is known nowadays as much for her outbursts as her outfits. Now she finds herself caught up in yet another controversy. Prosecutors at an international tribunal in the ...

Supermodel Naomi Campbell is at the center of a riveting trial involving notorious ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor. Earlier today, she told a war crimes tribunal that she received a few ...