War amputees in Sierra Leone are complaining of their treatment and of a stalled reparation program, nearly seven years since the end of the country's brutal civil war. Human rights activists say ...

They’re members of the Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA), an organization co-founded by pastor Mambud Samai in 2001 after he returned home toward the end of Sierra Leone’s deadly ...

FILE - Farming trainees who lost limbs during Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war do warmup exercises before starting their day at the Farming on Crutches initiative in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Sept ...

Farming trainees who have been amputated during Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1991-2002, do warmup exercises before starting their day at the Farming on Crutches initiative in Freetown, Sierra ...

The civil war in Sierra Leone has been over for more than a decade, but changes are needed if thousands of survivors, and the nation itself, are to move beyond the conflict, according to a new book by ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Across the bay from the hospital where former child-soldiers have their rebel brands removed, other scarred survivors of Sierra Leone's civil war wait without hope of ...

Lockdowns are helping a lot of countries flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic. But for some war-wounded or amputees in Sierra Leone in West Africa, victims of that country's civil war of ...

For a group of men from Sierra Leone who were mutilated in the civil war raging in their homeland, Greenpoint has become a refuge. "Everyone here is very nice to us as soon as they see us," said ...

Its brutal civil war from 1991-2002 created about 28,000 amputees. ... But the vast majority of amputees in Sierra Leone have no such support. Alimany Kani, 30, ...

Farming trainees who have been amputated during Sierra Leone's civil war from 1991-2002, do warmup exercises before starting their day at the Farming on Crutches initiative in Freetown, Sierra ...

Sierra Leone's brutal civil war from 1991-2002 created about 28,000 amputees. Now many live on the streets and beg, facing discrimination. They are often regarded as a shameful reminder of ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Lahai Makieu struck the bamboo with a machete until it cracked and fell. Balancing on his crutch, he reached to pick it up. But colleagues pulled the bamboo's other ...