“A GREAT man who cared for his people and country.” That was how his widow described Foday Sankoh, but it is hard to find anyone else with a kind word for him. He was not Africa's most prolific ...

The jailed leader of Sierra Leone’s brutal rebel movement was charged with murder Monday, almost two years after 19 people were killed during protests outside his home in Freetown. Foday Sankoh, who ...

Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for hacking off the limbs, lips and ears of civilians, died in U.N. custody at a Freetown hospital, the war-crimes ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Pneumonia and other ailments killed former Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh, an indicted war-crimes suspect who died in U.N. custody, doctors concluded. Authorities ...

In the Spring of 1999, Foday Sankoh, the leader of Sierra Leone's brutal Revolutionary United Front, had at last been brought to the dock. Extradited by the Nigerian government, the cashiered army ...

Foday Sankoh, the Sierra Leone warlord whose rebels routinely hacked off the limbs of men, women and infants during a 10-year campaign, died Tuesday night in the custody of a U.N.-backed war crimes ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — His hair and beard in unkempt white dreadlocks, Sierra Leone’s once mighty and feared rebel leader appears today to hover on the verge of madness--but insists he’s still at ...

Former Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh died early on Wednesday at a Freetown hospital, said an official at a United Nations (UN)-backed war crimes court where he was facing trial. The ...

Foday Sankoh, who died on Tuesday aged 65, was the leader of one of the world's most brutal guerrilla movements; for 10 years his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) terrorised the people of Sierra Leone ...