The country’s modern history has been overshadowed by a brutal civil war that ended in 2002, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of more than 2 million people – about ...

The RPCA has pioneered the Longitudinal Study of War-affected Youth (LSWAY) that began in 2002 at the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Funded through multiple National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sierra Leone is one of the worst places in the world to be a girl. In this West African country of about six million ...

The International Rescue Committee provides vital support to Sierra Leoneans recovering from civil war, the Ebola epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global impacts of the war in Ukraine. Located ...

The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington Tim Hetherington's photos: Liberia, Sierra Leone Pictures from the Libyan civil war, and a final image from Sierra Leone. Gallery ...