Sierra Leone's brutal civil war from 1991-2002 created about 28,000 amputees FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Lahai Makieu struck the bamboo with a machete until it cracked and fell. Balancing on his ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Farming trainees who have been amputated during Sierra Leone’s civil war from 1991-2002, do warmup ...

Sierra Leone's brutal civil war from 1991-2002 created about 28,000 amputees. Now many live on the streets and beg, facing ...

Sierra Leone is extremely poor and nearly half ... but it is still recovering from a civil war that destroyed most institutions before ending in the early 2000s. In recent years, economic growth ...

Lahai Makieu struck the bamboo with a machete until it cracked and fell. Balancing on his crutch, he reached to pick it up.

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The situation in Sierra Leone has taken a troubling turn, with the country seemingly slipping into a police state where civil liberties are under attack. Journalists, lawyers, and civil rights ...

Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ...

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 ...

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