Ex-child soldier from Sierra Leone freed in Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A former child-soldier from Sierra Leone has been released after more than two years of immigration detention in Minnesota, his lawyers said Friday. U.S. Magistrate...
View ArticleFormer Sierra Leone child solider to tell his story at Troy University (Troy...
(Source: Troy University) Former Sierra Leone child solider to tell his story at Troy University Posted: Friday, 25 September 2015 TROY - Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone and...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: Ex-child soldier freed in Minnesota
A former child-soldier from Sierra Leone has been released after spending over two years of immigration detention in Minnesota....
View ArticleFormer child soldiers from Sierra Leone employed as mercenaries in Iraq
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2016 Under the watchful eye of president Ernest Bai Koroma and his cohorts, children as young as 15 have been carted away to fight a war that has nothing to do with...
View ArticleVancouver child soldier survivor creates foundation for change in Sierra Leone
Fazineh Keita made his way to Canada in 2007 after finding a way out of the decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone where he experienced life as a child soldier. At eight years old, kids are usually...
View ArticleTwo Ex-Sierra Leone Child Soldiers to Sue Security Firm Over Psychological Harm
Two former child soldiers fighting in Sierra Leone’s civil war plan to sue private security company Aegis Defence Services, which recruited them when they were under 13 years old, over psychological...
View ArticleSierra Leone’s former child soldiers used as cheap labour for operations in...
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2017 A new documentary to be shown on Al Jazeera TV, titled – ‘Child Soldiers Reloaded’, features interviews with several former child soldiers from Sierra Leone – most of...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: Preventing child soldiers and boosting security
“There are more than 250,000 child soldiers forced into armed conflicts around the world. For decades, the global reaction to this disturbing phenomenon has been largely reactive, as the international...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : Child Soldiers Initiative Pays Visit to Sierra Leone
Child Soldier Initiative, an international organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, together with the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), on Tuesday June 13th 2017 organized a press conference at the...
View ArticleAn evil man in Sierra Leone passed away after thousands were hacked to death...
Claudia Anthony (with additional content by the Sierra Leone Telegraph) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 July 2017 On this glorious day fourteen years ago, a wicked and monstrous rebel war lord by the name...
View ArticleRapper LAJ Money to be deported to Sierra Leone
One of Sierra Leone’s famous rapper LAJ , who was serving 8 years prison term for Identity theft, credit card fraud, carrying fake immigration documents, car theft in the United States was released two...
View ArticleAn evil man in Sierra Leone passed away after thousands were hacked to death...
On 29th July, 2017, fourteen years ago, a wicked and monstrous rebel war lord by the name of Foday Saybanah Sankoh died of pneumonia in the custody of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. His celebrated...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: Kuwait stops issuing visas for Sierra Leone maids
Amid allegations of abuse by their employers, Kuwait has stopped issuing visas to Sierra Leoneans who seek domestic jobs in the country, a news release from the Sierra Leone Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
View ArticleHON. DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN'S OPENING STATEMENT ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE...
HON. DR. SYLVIA BLYDEN'S OPENING STATEMENT ON THE PRESENTATION OF THE COMBINED THIRD TO FIFTH PERIODIC REPORT OF SIERRA LEONE IN FULFILLMENT OF ARTICLE 44 OF THE U.N. CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE...
View ArticleAuthorities re-arrest freed Sierra Leone war crimes convict
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Authorities have re-arrested a former leader of a militia accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during Sierra Leone's civil war after he violated terms of his...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : World Bank Sierra Leone Donates Vehicles to Charitable...
The World Bank Sierra Leone Country Office on Thursday May 11th donated two Toyota Land Cruisers and one Prado vehicle to three non-governmental organizations actively working with vulnerable groups in...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : As no more Slave-like Visa 20 for Sierra Leone women......
His Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has once again solidified his credentials as the greatest protector of welfare of the Sierra Leone Woman with the news that his Government has...
View ArticleResilience is a way of life in Sierra Leone, now mourning hundreds lost in...
A nation “once again… gripped by grief”. This was how Ernest Bai Koroma, president of Sierra Leone, described the effects of the mudslide that devastated Regent, on the outskirts of the country’s...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : AWOL Celebrates Day of African Child 2017 with School...
Freetown, Sierra Leone I Friday, June 16th 2017: The Day of the African Child (DAC) is celebrated every year on the African Continent and around the world since 1991 when it was initiated by the...
View ArticleNew Strategy Launched to Help Tackle Maternal, Child Deaths in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN, 6 November 2017 --- Today a new national five-year strategy and a policy for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) was launched in Sierra Leone, which aims to...
View ArticleSierra Leone’s deputy high commissioner to Nigeria kidnapped for a $40...
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 July 2016 The government of Sierra Leone has this afternoon confirmed the report of the kidnapping of the former head of Sierra Leone’s military, who is currently serving in...
View ArticleChild Soldiers in Africa: ICC Trial of Congolese Warlord Puts Recruitment of...
Almost two years after the trial opened, Congolese military commander Bosco Ntaganda will take the stand on Wednesday at the International Criminal Court (ICC), charged with 13 war crimes and five...
View ArticleResilience has become a way of life in Sierra Leone, now mourning hundreds...
A nation “once again… gripped by grief”. This was how Ernest Bai Koroma, president of Sierra Leone, described the effects of the mudslide that devastated Regent, on the outskirts of the country’s...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : Ernest Bai Koroma Gives Sierra Leone Women more reasons...
Sierra Leone women yet again have another reason to eulogise the President of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma. This time over his act to ensure that a critical obstacle to equality...
View ArticleEx-child soldiers to sue UK firm that hired them to be mercenaries in Iraq
The two men, who were under 13 when they fought in Sierra Leone, allege Aegis Defence Services failed to mitigate the psychological harm they suffered...
View ArticleA NEW DAWN FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SIERRA LEONE, PARLIAMENT APPROVES...
The Parliament of the Republic of Sierra Leone has overwhelmingly approved the appointment of Mr Melron Nicol-Wilson as new Ombudsman, on Tuesday April 11, 2017. This follows him being named by H.E...
View ArticleResilience has become a way of life in Sierra Leone – now mourning hundreds...
David Winter Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2017 Few countries can have exceeded Sierra Leone’s share of misfortune over the last three decades, including civil war and the world’s largest Ebola...
View ArticleSierra Leone parliament approves new Ombudsman
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2017 The Parliament of Sierra Leone last Tuesday, 11th of April, 2017, overwhelmingly approved the appointment of Mr Melron Nicol-Wilson as the country’s new Ombudsman....
View ArticleSOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT SIERRA LEONE: Juvenile detention centres lack means...
By Ahmed SahidNasralla (De Monk) Most of the inmates share mattresses and nets, little sleep on the cold floor Jesus is Freedom: inmates express their faith and hope through sketches on the walls of...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: Remembering Bobson Kamara
There was snow this Sunday morning when I woke up in Southern Germany the first snow of the year. Bobson Kamara liked snow. He liked goat cheese too, and French dried sausage called saucisson, mussels,...
View ArticleUnsound, Unjust and Unwise -- Banning Pregnant Girls From School in Sierra Leone
It's now widely known that the government of Sierra Leone has instituted a ban on pregnant girls from taking exams and attending regular schools. The ban gives Sierra Leone the dubious distinction of...
View ArticleSierra Leone News: THE DARK SIDE OF SIERRA LEONE’S DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21ST...
The 20th Century is gone and the celebrations that marked the beginning of the 21st Century on January 1, 2000 reverberated throughout the world. This new Millennium was considered by many (especially...
View ArticleSIERRA LEONE: Juvenile detention centres lack means to reform inmates
After spending years without trial detainees return to society worse off than they were He was 15 years when he was brought to the remand home for juveniles in Kingtom, Freetown, after he was arrested...
View ArticleUK firm 'employed former child soldiers' as mercenaries in Iraq
Former director acknowledges Aegis Defence Services may have recruited former child fighters in Sierra Leone...
View ArticleHuman rights in Sierra Leone – has the ruling APC done enough to deserve a ...
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2017 Since coming to power in 2007 several journalists and political opponents have been arrested and detained behind bars by the Koroma government of Sierra Leone....
View ArticleDeath penalty will not reform disenfranchised youths in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2016 As the government of Sierra Leone prepares to resume the death penalty, despite recent commitment to abide by United Nations’ and other global human rights...
View ArticleSharing the blame for the increase in child abuse in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has a long way to go before it can guarantee the full enjoyment of the rights of the child. There are still many challenges that require timely attention, from both state and non-state...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : Zainab Bangura Wins Hillary Clinton Award
One of Sierra Leones most outstanding women of her generation Haja Dr. Zainab Hawa Bangura has once again brought laurels to herself, her family and her Nation by being named the winner of the...
View ArticleCOMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD REVIEWS THE REPORT OF SIERRA LEONE (UNOG...
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) 15 September 2016 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of Sierra...
View ArticleThe forgotten child prisoners of Sierra Leone
Sorie's* last day of freedom was a few weeks before his 14th birthday, when the well-to-do father of a girl he liked got word that his daughter had been hanging around with a street boy. The girl's...
View ArticleHUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS OUTCOMES OF UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF SIERRA...
(Source: UNOG - United Nations Office at Geneva) Concludes General Debate on Human Rights Bodies and Mechanisms 24 June 2016 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted the outcomes of the...
View ArticleNews24.com | Ex-child soldier from Sierra Leone freed in Minnesota
A former child-soldier from Sierra Leone has been released after more than two years of immigration detention in Minnesota. ......
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