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

A quarter of a century later, Getty chose to return to Sierra Leone to reflect on the events that shaped his life, pay ...

Ishmael Beah defends his memoir and goes home to Sierra Leone. Aug. 5, 2008 — -- Ishmael Beah wears the scars of Sierra Leone's civil war as his own. In what was once the poorest country on earth ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's army said it arrested nine soldiers over the weekend for planning a protest during a visit by President Ernest Bai Koroma to his hometown. The arrests highlight ...

A military court in Sierra Leone sentenced 24 soldiers to lengthy prison terms Friday for their roles in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of President Julius Maada Bio in November 2023.

BANDAJUMA, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At an age when they should be playing basketball with the other kids, two teenaged boys have chosen to sit it out on the bench, staring blankly ahead with troubled ...

Thousands of children were forced to fight in Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war, which ended in 2002. More than 50,000 people were killed in the fighting and many tens of thousands more mutilated or ...

The contrast could not be more marked: The British soldiers in creased, clean uniforms, smile at visitors and turn pink in the midday sun; their Sierra Leonean counterparts sport whatever fatigues are ...

HASTINGS, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - In a patch of freshly cleared bush a short drive outside the capital Freetown, U.S. trainers look on as Sierra Leonean troops crawl over red laterite soil and square ...

Vice President of Sierra Leone has left his home alongside his wife to take refuge at an undisclosed location until his request for asylum at the US embassy is granted. d dimeji akinloye Follow ...