| 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. ...
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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 (October 17, 1937 - July 29, 2003) was a leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in the 10-year-long Sierra Leonean civil war, which ended in 2002. ...
Samuel Hinga Norman (1940) was a chieftan from the Mende tribe in Sierra Leone and led the traditional paramilitary force, the Kamajors. ...
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. ...
Solomon Anthony James Musa (1966 - January 1999) was an important military and political figure in the Sierra Leone Civil War. ...
| | 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. ...
The Kamajors are a group of traditional hunters from the south and east of Sierra Leone (mostly from the Bo district). ...
Executive Outcomes (EO) was a private military company, or mercenary 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 Abidjan Peace Accord was a treaty signed between the Sierra Leone Peoples 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. ...
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. ...
SLPP symbol, the palm-tree 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 - Limba - Krio The Mende are a large tribe (population approximately 700,000), speakers of the Mende language, living primarily in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. ...
The Krio are an ethnic group in Sierra Leone, descendants of various groups of freed slaves landed in Freetown between 1787 and about 1855. ...
| | 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. ...
The Mano River is a river in west Africa, it originates in the Guinea Highlands in Liberia and forms the Liberia-Sierra Leone border. ...
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. ...
| | Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser (born 1967) is a former head of state of Sierra Leone. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
List of Heads of Government of Sierra Leone (Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office) Affiliations See also Sierra Leone List of Presidents of Sierra Leone Politics of Sierra Leone lists of incumbents Categories: Sierra Leone ...
He was a junior military officer until 1992, when he was among a group of young officers who overthrew Joseph Momoh. Afterwards, the group formed the National Provisional Ruling Council, with Strasser as its leader. Strasser became the world's youngest head of state. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
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His rule was mostly unremarkable by the standards of African dictators. He continued the civil war against Foday Sankoh and the Revolutionary United Front, but without much success. In an attempt to break the deadlock, he hired the mercenary firm Executive Outcomes to supplement his own military. Foday Sankoh (October 17, 1937 - July 29, 2003) was a leader of the Sierra Leone rebel faction Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in the 10-year-long Sierra Leonean civil war, which ended in 2002. ...
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. ...
Executive Outcomes (EO) was a private military company, or mercenary company, founded by Eeben Barlow in 1989 and ceasing to exist in 1999. ...
In January, 1996, he was overthrown in a polite coup by Julius Maada Bio, who sent him into exile. He was invited by the UN to study law at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England, but stopped his studies after a year. He was unemployed in England until 2000, when the general public became aware of his presence. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Brigadier General Julius Maada Bio (born 1964) lead a coup in Sierra Leone on January 17, 1996 ousting President Valentine Strasser, who he accused of clinging to power. ...
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization that describes itself as a global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. ...
The University of Warwick is a campus university in the United Kingdom. ...
The Precinct in Coventry city centre. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ...
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Eventually he ended up back in Sierra Leone, unemployed and living with his mother.
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