The 1990s and early 2000s were a bloody time in Africa. Civil wars raged in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Hollywood focused attention on the war’s human toll in films such as Blood Diamond and Beasts of ...

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 ...

In 2003 Alex Vines was based in Freetown, Sierra Leone and Monrovia, Liberia as the conflict diamond investigator for the UN Panel of Experts on Liberia. He was involved in the creation of the ...

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.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is guilty of "aiding and abetting" forces in Sierra Leone that committed war crimes and other atrocities during a war that lasted more than a decade and left ...

The Wagner Group, the mercenary army run by Vladimir Putin’s ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, is instrumental to Russia’s war on Ukraine. But Wagner has also been on the offensive across Africa. After failing ...

Liberia, West Africa’s most forested country, has a long history of illegal logging, which the country’s regulator, the Forestry Development Authority, has repeatedly struggled to confront. So it ...

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 ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was being flown back to his homeland Wednesday after being arrested on the run in Nigeria, days after escaping custody while awaiting ...

Students work on their reading on the onebillion software on tablets in a school in Liberia. In the backwaters of what many in the United States consider a backwater, a quiet revolution is brewing.

* Charles Taylor says case based on lies, disinformation * Taylor denies all charges, testimony to last several weeks (Adds Taylor comments) By Reed Stevenson THE HAGUE, July 14 (Reuters) - Liberia's ...