I have just heard about the untimely passing away of former RUF rebel leader Foday Saybana Sankoh, alias "Okuruba" or The Warrior. I got to know the legendary Foday Sankoh during the Ecowas-sponsored ...

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Foday Sankoh, an indicted Sierra Leone war criminal whose rebel forces were notorious for hacking off the limbs, lips and ears of civilians, died in U.N. custody at a Freetown hospital, the war-crimes ...

Sierra Leone's former rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, has told a Freetown court that he is innocent of murder. But the trial of Mr Sankoh and 49 other members of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was ...