The 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. ......
View ArticleBorderers make Sierra Leone tribute to Galashiels soldier
Members of the Royal Scots Borderers have paid their respects to a Galashiels soldier who died in Sierra Leone more than 70 years ago. Lance Serjeant Frederick Robertson is buried in King Tom Cemetery...
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 ArticleSierra Leone News: Special Court re-arrests CDF Director of War
The President Justice Philip N. Waki of the UN backed Special War Crimes Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday 9th March ordered the arrest and detention of former Civil Defence Force Coordinator...
View ArticleSierra Leone News : Sierra Leone needs a Credible Data to reduce Maternal...
Friday 05 August 2016: The World Health Organization Country Representative, Dr. Anders Nordstrom has averred that Sierra Leone needs credible data in the fight to reduce maternal and child morbidity...
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone frees 13 on mutiny charge
A court-martial in Sierra Leone has found 13 soldiers not guilty on charges of mutiny and plotting to overthrow the government.......
View ArticleNews24.com | I'm not in danger, says embattled Sierra Leone VP
Sierra Leone's vice-president has appeared in public for the first time since his residence was stormed by soldiers, insisting that he is not in danger and suggesting that he has not been in hiding....
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone guarantees safety of VP in hiding
Sierra Leone has vowed to ensure the safety of its vice-president, who went into hiding after soldiers stormed his residence....
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone's VP asks US for asylum
Sierra Leone's vice president has sought asylum on the United States, saying he no longer felt safe in the country after soldiers disarmed the security team at his residence....
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone peacekeepers quarantined over Ebola
A battalion of 800 Sierra Leone soldiers awaiting deployment as peacekeepers in Somalia has been placed in quarantine after one of its members tested positive for the deadly Ebola virus, officials say....
View ArticleSierra Leone ex-rebel serving time for war crimes dies
A family member says a former rebel leader serving a 50-year sentence in Rwanda for war crimes committed during Sierra...
View ArticleSierra Leone soldier with Ebola is not peacekeeper
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — A Sierra Leone soldier has tested positive for Ebola but he is not a member of, and had no contact with, a battalion of peacekeepers waiting to deploy to Somalia, a...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Sierra Leone Ranked 15th Highest in Child Marriage
[Concord] United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sierra Leone, Dr. Klim Eva Dickson, has disclosed that Sierra Leone was ranked 15th among countries with the highest rate of...
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone frees 55 from Ebola quarantine
Only four people remained in quarantine in Sierra Leone on Wednesday after 55 others were declared free of the Ebola virus and released from hospital, officials and medical sources said. ......
View ArticleNews24.com | Sierra Leone talk show host released from jail
A journalist held in Sierra Leone since 3 November after a guest on his radio show criticised President Ernest Bai Koroma's handling of the Ebola outbreak, has been released from jail....
View ArticleAuthorities re-arrest freed Sierra Leone war crimes convict
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) A security official says authorities have re-arrested a former leader of a militia accused of torturing and...
View ArticleSierra Leone ex-child soldiers threaten to sue British mercenary firm
Child soldiers who were forced to fight in Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war say they will sue a British military firm that later recruited them in adulthood to perform mercenary work in Iraq in place of...
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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