Sierra Leone Civil War

Personalities

Charles Taylor - Foday Sankoh Hinga Norman - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Johnny Paul Koroma Valentine Strasser - Solomon Musa National motto: Unity - Freedom - Justice // Background Main article: History of Sierra Leone The colonial history of Sierra Leone was not placid. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Charles Taylor announces his resignation on Liberian TV, 2003 Charles Ghankay Taylor (born January 28, 1948) was the President of Liberia from 1997 to 2003. ... Foday Sankoh Foday Sankoh (October 17, 1937 - July 29, 2003) was a leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front in the 10-year-long Sierra Leonean civil war, which ended in 2002. ... Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (born February 16, 1932) is the President of Sierra Leone (1996-1997, 1998 - present). ... Johnny Paul Koroma (1960 - June 1, 2003) was the head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998. ... Valentine Strasser (born 1967) is a former head of state of Sierra Leone. ...

Armed Forces

RUF - SLA - West Side Boys Kamajors - Executive Outcomes ECOMOG - Sandline International The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel army that fought a failed ten-year insurrection in Sierra Leone, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. ... The West Side Boys were an armed group in Sierra Leone, sometimes described as a splinter faction of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. ... Executive Outcomes (EO) was a private military company founded by Eeben Barlow in 1989 and ceasing to exist in 1999. ... ECOMOG is a West African multilateral armed force established by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ... Sandline International was a private security (military) company based in London, established in the early 1990s. ...

Attempts at Peace

Lomé Peace Accord - Abidjan Peace Accord UNAMSIL - SCSL PEACE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE AND THE REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT OF SIERRA LEONE THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE and THE REVOLUTIONARY UNITED FRONT OF SIERRA LEONE (RUF/SL) Having met in Lome, Togo, from the 25 May 1999, to 7 July 1999 under the... The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) is a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Sierra Leone. ...

Political Groups

SLPP - AFRC - APC Political parties in Sierra Leone lists political parties in Sierra Leone. ... The Sierra Leone Peoples Party is the ruling political party in Sierra Leone. ... The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) was the former military of Sierra Leone that merged into the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s. ... The All Peoples Congress is a political party in Sierra Leone. ...

Tribes

Mende - Temne The Mende are a large tribe (population approximately 700,000), speakers of the Mende language, living primarily in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. ... Temne can refer to: The Mel Temne language, one of the four official languages of Sierra Leone, Africa. ...

See also

Freetown - Mano River Conflict diamond - Liberian Civil War Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast. ... A conflict diamond (also called a blood diamond) is a diamond mined in a war zone and sold, usually clandestinely, in order to finance an insurgent or invading armys war efforts. ... Charles Taylor, a leader of the NPFL and later President of Liberia. ...

The Abidjan Peace Accord was a treaty signed between the Sierra Leone People's Party(SLPP) government of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group led by Foday Sankoh to find a resolution to the Sierra Leone Civil War. Discussions for peace began in May 1996 in the city of Yamoussoukro, and although the initial talks failed, the channels of communication had been opened. Talks continued off and on for the next six months, and on 20 November, 1996, the Abidjan Peace Accord was signed in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. The Sierra Leone Peoples Party is the ruling political party in Sierra Leone. ... Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (born February 16, 1932) is the President of Sierra Leone (1996-1997, 1998 - present). ... The Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was a rebel army that fought a failed ten-year insurrection in Sierra Leone, starting in 1991 and ending in 2002. ... Foday Sankoh Foday Sankoh (October 17, 1937 - July 29, 2003) was a leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front in the 10-year-long Sierra Leonean civil war, which ended in 2002. ... National motto: Unity - Freedom - Justice // Background Main article: History of Sierra Leone The colonial history of Sierra Leone was not placid. ... Yamoussoukro, a town of 100,000 inhabitants located 240 kilometers North of Abidjan, is the administrative capital of Côte dIvoire. ... Abidjan is the largest city and former capital of Côte dIvoire. ...

Goals

The accords sought out a broad range of goals:

• A National Commission for the Consolidation of Peace was to be established
• A Neutral Mioitoring Group was proposed, which would consist of 700 troops
• All RUF combatants would disarm, and amnesty would be granted them
• Efforts would be made to reintegrate RUF rebels into society
• Foriegn mercenary groups such as the government hired Executive Outcomes would leave the country after the establishment of the monitoring group

Executive Outcomes (EO) was a private military company founded by Eeben Barlow in 1989 and ceasing to exist in 1999. ...

Results

The monitoring group did not get off the ground, ad the RUF proposed it consist of only 120 monitors, and agreement could not be reached. Tensions mounted when RUF spokesmen and supporters of the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace, Fayia Musa, Ibrahim Deen-Jalloh, and Philip Palmer were accused of attempting to overthrow Sankoh as leader of the RUF. The three were interred by RUF forces, and Sankoh consolidated power in the RUF leading up to the military coup of 25 May, 1997 by Johnny Paul Koroma, leader of the newly formed Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, which joined forces with the RUF. This was certainly the death knell for any hope of peace stemming from the Abidjan Accords. Johnny Paul Koroma (1960 - June 1, 2003) was the head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council of Sierra Leone from May 1997 to February 1998. ... The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) was the former military of Sierra Leone that merged into the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s. ...

Signatories

The signatories included:

• Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah - President of the Republic of Sierra Leone
• Corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh - Leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
• Henri Konan Bedie - President of the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire
• Berhanu Dinka - Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sierra Leone
• Adwoa Coleman (M/S) - Representative of the Organization of African Unity (OAU)
• Moses Anafu (DR) - Representative of the Commonwealth Organization