Former Liberian president guilty of "aiding and abetting" in landmark decision. April 26, 2012 — -- After a five year trial that included grisly testimony from victims who were missing limbs, ...

Lawyer for accused blood diamond-financed president slams Tribunal for "racism." Oct. 27, 2009 — -- The lawyer for the African despot accused of financing rape and pillage with stolen diamonds, ...

Commentator Jeremy Levitt talks about the many allegations against former Liberian President Charles Taylor — and the likelihood that an outcome that all parties involved will find satisfactory may be ...

A Sierra Leonean village has been hit with tragedy after two teenage boys were buried underneath a collapsed mine in the ...

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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — The man who was once Africa's most feared warlord listened impassively to a litany of horrors couched in dispassionate legal language — cutting off of limbs and other body ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – A U.N.-backed court Wednesday found three former leaders of a Sierra Leone junta guilty of war crimes, the first convictions stemming from the country’s decade-long civil ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The tribunal established to prosecute those most responsible for atrocities committed during Sierra Leone’s 10-year civil war will soon deliver its final judgment and become the ...

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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday by an international war crimes court in The Hague, Netherlands, for a series of atrocities, including funding rebels in Sierra Leone.

As chief prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Stephen Rapp witnessed many firsts, including the first ever convictions for the recruitment of child soldiers and the first convictions for ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- It was a day that Lami Dusujaroka, who in 1999 lost both his hands to a rebel with a machete, never believed would come. On March 10, five people accused of overseeing some ...