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.

LANSING, Mich. - The Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) is joining the State Partnership Program as an additional member of the existing partnership between the Michigan National Guard and ...

--Liberia and Sierra Leone, alongside the ECOWAS Commission, on Saturday broke ground for the construction of the Jendema-Bo Waterside Joint Border Post (JBP), a flagship ECOWAS project expected to ...

The daughter and niece of Samuel K. Doe and Charles Taylor, respectively, traded accusations on social media this week over competing accounts of their fathers' roles in Liberia's civil war, with ...

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 ...

Against the backdrop of African conflict, Liberia’s two turn-of-the-century wars were fierce, replete with forced impressment of child soldiers, torture, rape, and summary executions. The wars also ...

"In The War Machines, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 12 March 2004 The third ...