FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- A former rebel leader whose followers were known for mutilating civilians was indicted Monday along with six others by Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal. The indictments ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for hacking off the limbs, lips and ears of civilians, died in U.N. custody at a ...

Foday Sankoh led a vicious rebel group whose fighters used machetes to hack off the hands, feets, lips and ears of Sierra Leone's civilians and raped thousands of girls and women. He was idolised as a ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for hacking off the limbs, lips and ears of civilians, died in U.N. custody in a ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Abu is not sure exactly how old he was the first time he killed. He thinks he was 13, but was high on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol at the time and -- like many Sierra Leoneans ...

Freetown — Government soldiers and rebels in Sierra Leone are no longer restless since a ceasefire agreement signed last November ended 10 years of civil war. "It's been like paradise since that time, ...

Augustine Gbao, right, was sentenced in 2009 to 25 years in prison for acts including terrorism, extermination, murder, rape and sexual slavery. [AFP] Sierra Leone's UN-backed tribunal said Wednesday ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (Reuters) -- Bodies littered the streets of east Freetown and rebels were burning houses and cars as they retreated before a Nigerian-led West African force, a couple who fled ...

In 1991, a rebel army known as The Revolutionary United Front (aka the RUF) began terrorizing the eastern villages of Sierra Leone in an effort to gain control of the country's diamond mines. With ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - A framed photograph from Sierra Leone's civil war hangs in an office in the ramshackle capital Freetown, showing former rebel leader Maada Bio in military dress. Below the picture ...