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 ... by the UN in 2002 ...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF ... In July, 220 British combat support troops left Sierra Leone, albeit 114 mostly U.K. military personnel continued to play a major role in advising ...

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 ...

Sierra Leone's army said it thwarted a coup last November after gunmen broke into a military armoury and several prisons in Freetown A court in Sierra Leone has charged 27 soldiers with multiple ...

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.

Nowhere has this been more evident than in Sierra Leone during its 11-year civil war. Drawing upon in-depth interviews and focus groups with former child soldiers of Sierra Leone’s rebel Revolutionary ...

But he then gave evidence to the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone set up to investigate ... often by enslaved child soldiers. The ex-rebel said he was not in Liberia at the time.

Items from the Child War Trauma Questionnaire, Post-War Adversities Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, SWAY Parenting, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, Adapted UNICEF Multiple ... latentprofile analyses of Sierra ...