As of mid-October, no lawyers had offered their services to RUF leader Foday Sankoh, on trial for treason. Threats continued to be made against anyone defending accused AFRC/RUF members or ...

One of the most heart-warming stories in Nigeria last week was that seven governors, only three of them from Nigeria, met in Maiduguri to push forward with concerted efforts to salvage the Lake Chad ...

During the pre-1997 Liberian civil war, Taylor's NPFL provided significant military and logistical backing to Foday Sankoh's RUF to assist it to wage war against the government of Sierra Leone.