U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Tiffany Persons | Posted 11.04.2009 | Impact
In 2006, I saw an article about earth-bag building. I was thrilled that we could use this method for the schoolhouse we were planning to build in Sierra Leone. But then our plans changed.
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.19.2009 | Home
Connie Kargbo is an associate producer at Worldfocus and a native of Sierra Leone. She writes here of the story behind Somali piracy. There is news...
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.15.2009 | Impact
Don Smith doesn't have a single cause. His friend refers to him as a "strategic philanthropist." This Burlington, Vermont, funeral-home owner and oper...
AFP | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
DAKAR (AFP) Flash floods have claimed 187 lives and affected 635,273 people in west Africa since the rainy season started in June, the UN Office for t...
AP | CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — More than 200 people, including many schoolchildren returning from holidays, were missing and feared dead Thursday, a d...
Modiba | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
This is HuffPost World's regular feature that highlights interesting musicians and musical trends around the world. Know of a great musician doing g...
AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 08.20.2009 | Home
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor issued a challenge at his war crimes trial Monday to find any bank account owned by him holding illicit funds or "blood diamonds" from the civil war in Sierra Leone.
In his second week of testimony in his defense, Taylor denied any role in forming the guerrilla force that invaded Sierra Leone in 1991, that he helped plan the rebel incursion, that he trained the rebel forces or that he commanded their operations.
"I was never involved. It's a lie," he told the U.N-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague.
Taylor is charged with 11 counts of murder, torture and recruiting child soldiers for supporting rebels in Sierra Leone's 1991-2002 civil war, whose signature crime was to amputate civilians' limbs, ears and noses to intimidate the population into submission.
He is the first African head of state to be brought before an international court for war crimes.
Christopher Santora | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
Of the many criticisms levied against the international community's efforts to promote accountability, perhaps the most pervasive critique is a rather simple one -- the lack of consistency.
AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — In an unusual defense against war crimes charges, former Liberian President Charles Taylor told judges Thursday that he...
AP | MIKE CORDER | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Former Liberian president Charles Taylor will take the stand to assert that he was trying to bring peace to Sierra Leon...
Laurence Leamer | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
Thursday, Leahy will have the power to give birth to a bold new Peace Corps or possibly to destroy that dream forever.
Sia Nyama Koroma | Posted 08.03.2009 | World
Maternal mortality has sadly become the rule not the exception. But this can change. We have the knowledge and the skills to deliver -- we just need the political will and resources to support us.
John Feffer | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
David Alan Harris, a choreographer and therapist, tells the riveting story of how young men in Sierra Leone, who show no outward emotion about their past atrocities, slowly come to terms with their experiences -- through dance.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Via Foreign Policy, one of former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's wives told BBC Radio today that her husband is converting to Judaism. He will pr...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media
The 2009 Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists: JOURNALISM:...
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media
UNITED NATIONS — Gunmen on motorcycles riddled Lasantha Wickramatunga's windscreen with bullets on his way to work in January. The 52-year-old S...
The Independent | Katrina Manson | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
The female journalist was snatched by members of a secret society, forcibly stripped and made to parade naked through the streets. It might sound like...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — Ishmael Beah, author of a best-selling memoir about his time as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone, disputes newspaper reports that he had...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York