Sierra Leone’s present beauty and past pain are intimately bound. A journey from the West African country’s jungles to its ...

The phrase encapsulates his journey since the civil war in Sierra Leone. From 1991 to 2002, conflict in the West African country created some 28,000 amputees like him. Amputation by machete was ...

During Sierra Leone’s civil war, child combatants armed with pistols, rifles, and machetes actively participated in killings and massacres, severed the arms of other children, participated in ...

For 11 years, this small west African nation tore itself apart as attackers amputated villagers' limbs with blunt machetes ... prospect of tourism in Sierra Leone is back on the agenda.

The scene was familiar. Young men armed with blades hacking at the innocent. That was Sierra Leone - when machetes, known locally as cutlasses, were put to vicious effect. Now Freetown has come to ...