Museum of London John Henry Smythe was born in Freetown and served in the Sierra Leone Defence Corps. Following the declaration of war in 1939, he volunteered for the British Royal Air Force (RAF ...

Civilian Defense Forces fighting on behalf of the Sierra Leone government also recruited children at least as late as July, despite numerous public pledges by the government to desist from the use ...

In 2019, during the first Trump administration, Anthony was one of almost 360,000 immigrants deported that year. He had a ...

Sierra Leone made significant progress in 2002 ... Council (AFRC), and from the government-allied Civil Defense Force (CDF) militias. Of these, 6,845 had been child combatants, 92 percent of ...

were not adhering to a cease-fire accord signed with the Sierra Leone government in Abuja on November 10. As a result members of the 12,000-strong UN force had not yet been deployed to all rebel ...

DAKAR, Senegal -- Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency Monday after the country reported its second case of mpox in less than four days, health authorities said.