The Kimberley Process certification scheme, which aims to stop the use of diamonds to fund conflict, is failing, according to a campaign group.

By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa’s farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent’s precarious food...

Judges on Monday rejected a request by former Liberian President Charles Taylor for an immediate acquittal on war crimes charges, saying he must answer allegations that...

War crimes judges say they have dismissed a motion to acquit former Liberian President Charles Taylor because he may have been responsible for mass murder, rape and...

Sierra Leone authorities say three men convicted of drug smuggling have been sent to the U.S. where they are wanted on similar charges.

A U.N.-sponsored war crimes court found three top Sierra Leone rebel leaders guilty Wednesday of multiple crimes against humanity in the West African nation’s...

An international tribunal found three Sierra Leone rebel leaders guilty of crimes against humanity.

A U.N.-sponsored war crimes court is delivering verdicts Wednesday for three rebel commanders accused of crimes against humanity in the group’s decade-long battle...

They chopped off hands, legs, lips, ears, breasts. In their decade-long battle to take control of Sierra Leone and its diamond fields, rebels of the Revolutionary...

Prosecutors have called a man who had both hands hacked off during Sierra Leone’s civil war as the last witness in their war crimes case against Charles Taylor.

Sierra Leone police say pirates attacked a Chinese fishing vessel in a rare attack off West Africa that ended with four suspects dead.

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...