Meet our personality for this week, Ishmael Beah Born on 23 November, Ishmael Beah is a Sierra Leonean writer and human rights activist, famous for being the author of the acclaimed memoir “A Long Way...
They say Sierra Leoneans don't know how to fight because when they do, they embark upon self-destruction by causing more harm than good to themselves. They amputate, slaughter, kill, and burn down their...
A quarter-century has passed since the day Freetown, Sierra Leone's vibrant capital, witnessed one of the darkest chapters in its history. On January 6, 1999, the rebel group Revolutionary United Front...
The Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum in the United Kingdom (UK) is displaying a Chinook helicopter used in combat during Sierra Leone’s civil war. “Famous Chinook ‘Bravo November’ is on display at...
One of Sierra Leone's former warlords Alieu Kondewai, has completed his jail term in Bo after he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Special Court. It could be recalled that at the end of...
The appeal trial of former Sierra Leonean warlord Gibril Massaquoi commonly called Angel Gabriel accused of atrocities including human rights violations has opened in Finland. Gibril Massaquoi was exonerated...
Memuna Mansaray McShane who has many stories to tell, some of which she remembers and some she could not on what exactly happen before, during and after the civil war in Sierra Leone, as she becomes the...
It is 30 years today after the National Provisional Ruling Council forcefully took over state governance from President Joseph Saidu Momoh, then Head of State (1985-1992). The NPRC guys had it as their...
On this day, March 23 1991 the war began, when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) under Foday Sankoh, with support of Liberian rebel leader Charles Taylor and his group, the National Patriotic Front...
This is Maimuna Mansaray, the two-year old kid that President Kabbah presented to the world during the signing of the Lome Peace Accord between the the Government of Sierra Leone and the RUF. Maimuna...
