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 ...

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 ...

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

One of Europe's most wanted fugitives, convicted cocaine smuggler Jos Leijdekkers, has found refuge and high-level protection ...

Twenty-four soldiers in Sierra Leone were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, some for up to 120 years, after being convicted by a military court ... left 18 security forces dead.