Sierra Leone

Charles Taylor's defense lawyers call 80-year sentence 'excessive'

2012-05-11 16:38:52

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Liberia's Charles Taylor guilty of aiding, abetting war crimes

2012-04-26 16:38:43

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Former prosecutor hails Charles Taylor guilty verdict

2012-04-26 16:38:40

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Conviction of Liberia's Charles Taylor seen as double-edged

2012-04-27 00:00:00

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The litany of abuses was chilling: mass murder, rape, sexual slavery. Forcing children to fight. Chopping off victims' limbs. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's conviction Thursday by an international tribunal...

Culver City gallery owner gives crutches to Sierra Leone disabled

2011-09-21 00:00:00

As a Culver City art gallery owner and marketing and advertising executive, Lisa Schultz wondered whether there was anything she could do about the plight of disabled men, women and children in Sierra Leone. Many had lost limbs during unspeakable...

Your morning adorable: Pygmy hippopotamus born at Zoo Miami

2010-11-24 16:33:33

Sierra Leone's crises have global reach

2009-11-15 00:00:00

When the power went out that night, Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie was operating on his fifth patient of the day in a maternity hospital with a shortage of antibiotics and running water. His colleague was doing an emergency caesarean in the next room. In the...

Guinea-Bissau: Cocaine's traffic hub

2009-11-16 00:00:00

As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African country, with its starry array of remote islands, as a transit point for drug shipments bound for Europe. It hasn't been...

A war on women

2008-02-17 00:00:00

Greetings from a war zone that's not Iraq. And not Afghanistan either. I'm checking in from West Africa, where I've been working with women in three neighboring countries, all recently torn apart by civil wars: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast....

Mass murderers on notice

2007-08-02 00:00:00

Can monsters be deterred? Or are the people who commit the most unthinkable crimes against humanity � mass murder, torture, genocide � so hell-bent on evil that the normal considerations of common criminals, such as fear of being caught, don't apply? If...

Culberson to grads: Let your light shine

2012-05-07 00:00:00

SOUTH BEND -- Sarah Culberson learned a valuable lesson when she found the courage to track down her birth father and traveled to his African village to meet him. A new world opened up to her, a world she is helping to improve through a charitable...

Cave Spring High School students help orphans from Sierra Leone

2012-05-10 13:47:00

It's a school project that brings new meaning to the phrase "life intimating art." Every year, art students from Cave Spring High School take part in the Memory Project. They draw portraits of orphans all over the world. This year, Cave Spring was...

People in Freetown, Sierra Leone, watch Charles Taylor, on screen, as his trial is broadcast from the Netherlands.

2012-04-26 00:00:00

Mohamed Traore, in Freetown, shows the injuries he suffered during the violence in Sierra Leone. Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted of arming rebels in Sierra Leone's civil war in exchange for "blood diamonds," among other crimes.

2012-04-26 00:00:00

Alhaji Jusu Jarka, chairman of an amputees group in Sierra Leone, walks outside the court in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where the trial was being broadcast. Amputations were among the war crimes that former Liberian President Charles Taylor was found guilty of abetting.

2012-04-26 00:00:00