A phone vibration drew my attention to an incoming message – a friend had sent a message with an attachment and a note reading, “This is so ...

In December l998, following the capture of the diamond rich Kono district and ... was simply staggering. In Sierra Leone, a war is being waged against the civilian population, and particularly ...

Sierra Leone, which was among top 10 diamond producers until 2013 with 608,955 carats of production, exported diamonds worth $221.67 million in2014. The project, a 79.9sqkm diamond mining site is ...

Sierra Leone is extremely poor and nearly half of ... but it is still recovering from a civil war that destroyed most institutions before ending in the early 2000s. In recent years, economic ...

The RPCA has pioneered the Longitudinal Study of War-affected Youth (LSWAY) that began in 2002 at the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war. Funded through multiple National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH ...