A world-famous sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone has reopened to the public, ending a five-month closure in ...

Sierra Leone seeks investment in a post-aid world - INTERVIEW: The chief minister of Sierra Leone tells Nick Ferris why he ...

Sierra Leone came to the United Nations Security Council ready to change the system. Instead, it found itself learning just ...

How community solutions are helping amputees and drug users in the West African nation ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – A U.N.-backed court Wednesday found three former leaders of a Sierra Leone junta guilty of war crimes, the first convictions stemming from the country’s decade-long civil ...

Twenty-five years ago, I was taken hostage in Sierra Leone. Eleven of us - ten British soldiers and our interpreter - were ...

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday by an international war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, for a series of atrocities, including funding rebels in Sierra Leone.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for hacking off the limbs, lips and ears of civilians, died in U.N. custody at a ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- A former rebel leader whose followers were known for mutilating civilians was indicted Monday along with six others by Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal. The indictments ...

GDYNIA Poland (Reuters) - It's a long way from the refugee camps of Africa to Poland's balmy Baltic coast, but for Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, the message is still the same. "We want to make ...

Aug 2 (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's U.N-backed Special Court convicted two former leaders of a pro-government militia on Thursday for war crimes, but acquitted them of some of the most serious charges of ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- It was a day that Lami Dusujaroka, who in 1999 lost both his hands to a rebel with a machete, never believed would come. On March 10, five people accused of overseeing some ...