Jos Leijdekkers — also known as "Omar Sheriff" and "Chubby Jos" — is accused of trafficking cocaine and ordering a murder.

Sitting in the shade of a palm tree on Tokeh Beach, one of Sierra Leone's many postcard-worthy, white-sand waterfronts, Peter Momoh Bassie told me his story. "I am not ashamed to say I was part of ...

Greatly criticized for its inaction during the great genocide of the nineties, the UN was more than willing to commit peacekeeping troops to another bloody African conflict in Sierra Leone. In fact, ...

The RSF was born out of the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias that was the main protagonist in genocide and war crimes in the Darfur ... crimes or the people the ICC now wants arrested. Sierra Leone, ...

Cardew, the British Governor of Sierra Leone noted 'the growing political consciousness of the African, and his increasing sense of his worth and autonomy.' In South West Africa (now Namibia ...