Charles Taylor

By working with faith healers and witch doctors, the doctors at a clinic in a war-ravaged district of Sierra Leone seek to draw in mentally ill patients and address medical problems usually framed in spiritual terms.

From the first round of voting in the French presidential elections and the crisis between Sudan and South Sudan to the continuing eruption of Mt. Etna and a plane crash in Pakistan, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week.

Leading up to the conviction of the former president of Liberia, Charles G. Taylor, Finbarr O'Reilly traveled to Sierra Leone for Reuters to capture a country now at peace, but impoverished.