Former child soldiers, forced to commit unimaginable acts of violence, have to navigate the scars of war and rebuild their lives. On Red Hand Day, stories from Sierra Leone offer a glimpse into ...

Theresa Betancourt has studied Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers. Her new book Shadows into Light tells their stories.

No one knew what the lives of former child soldiers might look like. Perhaps they would become “an entire lost generation,” as the prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone described them ...

using children and other abductees to engage in armed attacks against Sierra Leone civilians, Civilian Defense Forces, and soldiers from the Economic Community Cease-fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war ... Abubakar, a 17 year old RUF child soldier demobilized in March 2000 was abducted outside the demobilization camp and forced to rejoin the RUF later that ...

Su (2021) et al. Classifying childhood war trauma exposure: latentprofile analyses of Sierra Leone’s former child soldiers Betancourt (2019) et al. Stigma & Acceptance of Sierra Leone's Child Soldiers ...

ritual murder and the recruitment of child soldiers during Liberia's civil war. The court said there was not enough proof to convict Gibril Massaquoi. The 52-year-old is from Sierra Leone and was ...

Living in extreme poverty, with grave threats to their survival, health, education and protection, children in Sierra Leone need your help. 1 child in 10 dies before their 5th birthday, 15 times the U ...

He also starred in a Netflix movie about child soldiers, Beasts of No Nation, which was filmed in Ghana. Sierra Leone was hit hard by a civil war between 1991 and 2002, and between 2014 and 2016 ...

A military court in Sierra Leone sentenced 24 soldiers to lengthy prison terms Friday for their roles in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of President Julius Maada Bio in November 2023.