UN Security Council lifts arms embargo on Sierra Leone 8 years after end of brutal war

UN lifts arms embargo on Sierra Leone

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council is lifting a 13-year-old arms embargo against the small west African nation of Sierra Leone after being assured that the nation is sufficiently stable following the civil war that ended in 2002.

Top defender at Charles Taylor’s war-crimes trial wants SAfrica’s Thabo Mbeki to give evidence

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Sierra Leone parents seek children adopted by Americans in late 1990s, saying no consent given

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