Full Coverage: Sierra Leone

28.03.2008 A photographer blogs about her experiences in Sierra Leone, where she uses digital photography to help women and girls that have survived conflict, displacement, and gender violence make themselves heard.

12.03.2008 They were murderers, rapists, torturers, butchers and their victims in Sierra Leone’s civil war. Now – for the moment, since diamond-funded conflict and chaos could return at any time – they try to fight in less destructive ways and resume the real lives they can barely remember, reports Angela Robson.

04.03.2008 They were murderers, rapists, torturers, butchers and their victims in Sierra Leone’s civil war. Now – for the moment, since diamond-funded conflict and chaos could return at any time, says Angela Robson – they try to fight in less destructive ways and resume the real lives they can barely remember.

24.10.2007 Mercy Ships works with Sierra Leoneans who lacked access to polio vaccines during the country's civil war and now suffer with the disease.
From: Mercy Ships

11.10.2007 Two former commanders of a pro-government militia have been convicted by a local tribunal of war crimes they committed during the country's prolonged civil war in the 1990s.

18.09.2007 Benefiting from the current government’s failure to deliver key social services, Ernest Bai Koroma was elected president by Sierra Leoneans last week, despite the incumbent entering the race as the favorite.

14.09.2007 Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Thailand are currently gathering outside the UN headquarters in New York to demand greater attention be paid to global hunger. Through a regularly updated blog, the campaigners are sharing behind-the-scenes action, video feeds, concert footage, and more.

16.08.2007 This weekend's elections in Sierra Leone were "generally well administered, peaceful, and competitive," according to the European monitors in the country for the first post-civil-war vote to be completely overseen by local officials.

10.08.2007 This weekend, Sierra Leone holds its first national elections since peacekeepers left the country following its 10-year civil war. But peace is still fragile in the region, adding to the importance of holding fair and transparent elections, writes a human rights lawyer.

19.07.2007 In the first sentences handed down by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, three former members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council have been given lengthy prison sentences for crimes committed during the country's lengthy civil war.

18.06.2007 Rush Hour, a photographic montage of rush hour in Sierra Leone with a bustling soundtrack, runs at the Museum of Docklands from 6 July to 1 November.

06.06.2007 UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5 (OneWorld) - Both the United Nations and some of the world's leading human rights organizations are welcoming the start of the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor.

05.06.2007 Unless the underlying causes of Sierra Leone's recent civil war are tackled, instability and violence are increasingly likely as the country approaches the elections, say Brian Thomson.
From Chatham House

13.04.2007 Thousands of women and girls marched against sexual violence through the main streets of Freetown last week as part of a new initiative to end violence against women.

08.12.2006 As "The Blood Diamond" opens in movie theatres across the United States, OneWorld offers a brief guide to the issues of conflict diamonds, child soldiering, and Sierra Leone's recovery from civil war. Find out what you can do to make a difference.

23.09.2006 Unusual film double for Black History Month at the ICA in London on 1 October: The Lion Mountains: A Journey Through Sierra Leone, in which a 25-year-old Jamaican English man looks at the country’s past and present to understand how the country fell into civil war; and Black Survivors of the Holocaust, on the World War 2 concentration camp experience of Black Germans. Both films are followed by Q&A sessions.

13.07.2006 Man Dem Nor Glady'O (Creole for "The People Are Not Happy") - a documentary about how the UN and other international bodies dealt with the consequences of war in Sierra Leone but failed to deal with the causes - will be screened in London on 11 August at the Tricycle Cinema.

21.06.2006 Former Liberian president of Liberia Charles Taylor has finally been sent to the Netherlands to be tried for war crimes and involvement in the Sierra Leonean civil conflict.

01.06.2006 The lives of hundreds of thousands of children in Africa could be saved each year by abolishing fees for healthcare. What's more, it would cost relatively little. Get the low-down from the latest video on OneWorld TV.

30.05.2006 On a journey to Africa a year after his involvement in Live8 and Make Poverty History, Midge Ure, Save the Children Ambassador and Band Aid trustee, finds that even small fees for healthcare are beyond the means of the world's poorest and that every year 250,000 children die in Africa because they can’t afford to see a doctor or a nurse. Watch the video...