Sierra Leone’s June 2023 parliamentary elections are the fifth since the end of the civil war in 2002. They also mark a decade since the closure of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The court ...

Aminatta Forna was just 11 when her father was hanged for treason in Sierra Leone. His real crime was being a popular leader of the opposition in a country sinking under one-man rule and headed for ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A U.N.-backed war crimes court on Wednesday more than doubled the prison terms for two ex-militia leaders convicted of overseeing hundreds of killings and mutilations ...

In the leafy suburbs of Oslo Amputee Camp in this northern town in Sierra Leone, a three-hour drive from the capital city of Freetown, survivors and perpetrators of the 1991-2002 civil war live side ...

Her haunting work focused on the lingering traces of conflict in places like Bosnia and Sierra Leone, after the firing had ...

Africa Today, Vol. 58, No. 2, Special Issue: Everyday Life in Postwar Sierra Leone (Winter 2011), pp. 43-56 (16 pages) https://doi.org/10.2979/africatoday.58.2.43 ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for dismembering thousands of civilians, died in U.N. custody at a Freetown hospital, the ...

“War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone” depicts the everyday struggles of women trying to improve their lives, while illuminating the political, legal and economic ...