A boys’ soccer team from Sierra Leone won silver at a tournament in Sweden, but were hailed as champions in their poor West African homeland — because they...

Zain Group has rebranded its entire Africa operations from Celtel to Zain. The move brings the mobile operator’s Middle East and African mobile operations under...

A U.N.-backed war crimes court on Wednesday more than doubled the prison terms for two ex-militia leaders convicted of overseeing hundreds of killings and mutilations...

When Fatmata’s parents asked her to name the father of her unborn child, she couldn’t answer them. Captured by Revolutionary United Front rebels at 11, she had...

I left Africa in 1985, nearly 23 years ago and I haven’t been back. But like some things in life, once you become involved, you can never quite put it out of your...

A U.N.-backed court on Friday upheld the convictions of three former rebel leaders sentenced last year to half-century prison terms for rape, murder and other war...

Part II of the text of President Bush at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art on Thursday, as provided by the White House.___But in the long run, the best way...

The situation for children caught in conflict remains “grave and entirely unacceptable” because 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child...

It’s snowing relentlessly back in England right now so soccer star David Beckham took a trip to Africa just so he could play ball topless. Of course the tab for the...

Charles Taylor’s defense attorney argued Friday that a key prosecution witness at the former Liberian president’s war crimes trial was mentally...

Judges in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Tuesday allowed video of victims describing how they were sexually assaulted or...

Prosecutors launched their war crimes case against former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Monday, taking testimony from an expert on blood diamonds and showing...

The international war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor reopened Monday, six months after it was adjourned when he boycotted the opening session...

Young men stormed the streets of Guinea, hurling rocks and setting tires ablaze as labor unions called for a strike Friday, threatening to throw the African nation into...

An insider once close to Charles Taylor will testify that the toppled Liberian president had links to militias who rampaged through Sierra Leone, the chief prosecutor...

The Security Council voted unanimously Friday to wrap up the U.N. peacebuilding mission in Sierra Leone in September 2008, praising this year’s democratic...

A two-story building of apartments and shops caught fire and exploded in Sierra Leone’s capital Friday, killing 14 people and injuring 40, authorities...

The special court trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor on war crimes charges cleared the way Tuesday for his trial to resume next month, more than six months...

Arms embargoes imposed by the United Nations since 1990 have been effective in only about a fourth of the cases, according to a new study.The report, compiled by The...

Former child soldier and best-selling author Ishmael Beah has taken on a new role _ showing children caught in conflict that there can be a better life after war and...