During Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war, it is estimated that there were: 2.6 million people displaced, 70,000 casualties, and upwards of 48,000 male and female children associated with armed groups ...

Sierra Leone is a poor country in western Africa. A former British colony, it is significant in the history of the transatlantic slave trade, serving as both a departure point for captive people and a ...

Betancourt has followed the lives of children (now adults) who returned home after being forced to fight in the civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002. Thousands of children ...

Linked to a 20-year longitudinal study of war in Sierra Leone, the Youth Readiness Intervention (YRI ... Ebola), and other forms of adversity is well known. More than one billion children and youth ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... instances in which children recruited to the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) were compelled to commit abuses under threat of death or as a result of being ...

The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to Sierra Leoneans recovering from civil war, the Ebola epidemic ... fuel and commodities have contributed to civil unrest in Sierra Leone’s ...

Tens of thousands of people died in the 11-year-long ... in West Yorkshire on suspicion of war crimes carried out during the civil war in Sierra Leone, police said. The Metropolitan Police said ...

More than 1 million children and their families will be targeted in a major Mpox prevention campaign in Sierra Leone launched by Save the Children after the West African country recorded its first ...