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

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 ...

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 ...

We have an intergenerational study of war that's been going on in Sierra Leone for 16 years now. We're tracking a cohort of war-affected young people five hundred and twenty nine of them, most of them ...

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 ...