Sierra Leone: Related Web Sites

  • Civil War in Sierra Leone - includes reports, updates, and photo galleries, including, Forgotten Children of War. Also: Victim and witness testimony on July 2001 attacks. From Human Rights Watch.
  • Agony of Sierra Leone - special report on the country's civil war. From CBC News.
  • Sierra Leone - read personal accounts of the January, 1999, attack on Freetown, which involved subjected residents to, "random killings, abductions, amputations and systematic rape." From Radio Netherlands.
  • Sierra Leone's Civil War - special report that explains the origins of the conflict, the players involved, and more. From the BBC, July 1999.
  • Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone - photoessay by by Martin Lueders. From The Digital Journalist, February 1999.
  • Interviews: Sierra Leone - Joseph Opala, a U.S. anthropologist and resident of the country for 23 years, and Zainab Bangura, a Sierra Leonian democracy activist, on the history of the conflict and efforts at ending it. From Fresh Air, May 23, 2000; in RealAudio.
  • The Other War - photo essay, with pictures by Michel duCille. From the Washington Post.
  • CIA World Factbook: Sierra Leone - information on the country's geography, people, government, economy, military transnational, and more.
  • Sierra Leone Web - news, documents, speeches, photographs, and more.