World Bank President Robert Zoellick arrived in Sierra Leone Tuesday for the start of an eight-day, three-nation tour of Africa which will also take him to the Ivory Coast and Ethiopia. Zoellick was met at the airport by officials including Finance Minister Saidu Kamara ahead of a visit described by the government as "an endorsement and support for Sierra Leone ...

Liberia's ex-president Charles Taylor gave a so-called blood diamond to supermodel Naomi Campbell after a 1997 dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela, the prosecution in his war crimes trial charged Thursday. The diamond was among those Taylor had obtained from Sierra Leone rebels and took to South Africa "to sell .. or exchange them from weapons," prosecutor Brenda Hollis asserted in ...

Prosecutors accused former Liberian President Charles Taylor on Monday of lying at his war crimes trial. Taylor has repeatedly claimed he never met rebel leader Foday Sankoh before Sankoh unleashed a savage attack on Sierra Leone in 1991 that spawned a 12-year civil war ...

The government in Sierra Leone announced Friday an immediate ban on the transport and export of logs, in an effort to crackdown on a largely uncontrolled, multi-million-dollar industry. President Ernest Koroma's office said in a statement that "illegal logging is having adverse effect on the country's environment and depleting the ozone layer and most be stopped with immediate ...