Bio, a former soldier who briefly led a military junta more than two decades ago, won 51.81 percent of ballots in last month's election, according to official results. He beat incumbent Samura Kamara, ...

BANDAJUMA, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At an age when they should be playing basketball with the other kids, two teenaged boys have chosen to sit it out on the bench, staring blankly ahead with troubled ...

LANSING, Mich. — The partnership between the Michigan National Guard and Sierra Leone marked another step forward in the National Guard’s State Partnership Program. The relationship, which officially ...

Vice President of Sierra Leone has left his home alongside his wife to take refuge at an undisclosed location until his request for asylum at the US embassy is granted. d dimeji akinloye Follow ...

Families and communities are central to recovery for Sierra Leone's former child soldiers, Boston College researchers find in 15-year study of war-affected youth, the first to follow child soldiers ...

Professor Theresa Betancourt of Boston College has studied why some child soldiers in Sierra Leone heal after the trauma of war. But she took it a step further. She’s helping create programs that ...