Sierra Leone held general elections on March 7, 2018 to elect a new President, Members of Parliament and Local Councils in the fourth cycle of elections since the civil war in 2002. The AFRC and RUF united their fight and claimed that the war had ended. Only a few months later, though, in February 2000, a new UN resolution authorized the deployment of 11,000 combatants.Operation Khukri was a unique multinational operation launched in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), involving India, Nepal, Ghana, Britain and Nigeria.
The opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) candidate, Rtd. After a member of a previous government, Charles Taylor, came back to Liberia to topple the current government in the early 1990s, a civil war started in Liberia that spilled over the border into Sierra Leone. Although diamonds seemingly played a significant role in financing the war once it started, diamonds more likely contributed to corrupting state institutions in the pre-war period, thereby increasing grievance, rather than directly triggering the conflict. In March, the Special Court for Sierra Leone issued its first indictments for Several weeks later, word filtered out of Liberia that Koroma had been killed as well, although his death remains unconfirmed. Berman, EG 2001, ‘Arming the Revolutionary United Front’, BBC, “Charles Taylor guilty: judges excerpts,” April 26 2012, Collier, P 2000, ‘Doing well out of war: an economic perspective’, in M Berdal and DM Malone (ed. 2002 July - British troops leave Sierra Leone after their two-year mission to help end the civil war. Under the peace agreement that ended Liberia’s civil war in 2003, Taylor resigned as president.
from David Pratt, M.P., Nepean-Carleton, Special Envoy to Sierra Leone, 2003a, ‘Sierra Leone: warfare in a post-state society’, in RI Rotberg (ed. Rather than using a single-dimensional approach such as focusing on diamond resources, the main focus of this paper will be placed on the interaction between structure and agency.
It is not because oil offers higher financial incentives for potential rebels; it is more likely that oil-dependent countries have ‘weaker state institutions than other countries with the same per capita income’ (Fearon 2005, pp. Sierra Leone was a colony of British since 1808. Virtually any topic for the virtual learner. The shadow state, however, started to grow even more enormously under the All People’s Congress (APC) which ruled Sierra Leone from 1968 to 1992 (Peters 2011).Siaka Stevens, who was the prime minister (1968-1971) and then the first president of Sierra Leone (1971-1985) under the APC regime, and his Sierra Leone-born Lebanese partner, Jamil Said Mohammed, gained control of ‘the state diamond marketing monopoly in 1976 in a bogus privatization exercise’, enabling them to earn up to 300 million dollars (at 2001 prices) in diamond revenues.
In May 1997 the country experienced yet another coup as Maj. British were in this small African country in the west coast before 1808 and it used to trade slaves. Yet no precise number of abducted children has been confirmed, and estimated figures vary according to agencies.
For instance, he offered a number of benefits to the army officers, in particular to senior commanders, to buy off their loyalties (Keen 2003), but he did not finance the army for improving its fighting capacity. In just ten days of fighting, EO was able to drive the RUF forces back sixty miles into the interior of the country.The Abidjan Peace Accord mandated that Executive Outcomes was to pull out within five weeks after the arrival of a neutral After the departure of Executive Outcomes, the credibility of the Kabbah government declined, especially among members of the SLA, who saw themselves being eclipsed by both the RUF on one side and the independent but pro-government Kamajors on the other.The AFRC junta was opposed by members of Sierra Leone's civil society such as student unions, journalists associations, women's groups and others, not only because of the violence it unleashed but because of its political attacks on press freedoms and civil rights.ECOMOG’s intervention in Sierra Leone brought the AFRC/RUF rebels to the negotiating table where, in October 1997, they agreed to a tentative peace known as the Conakry Peace Plan.Unable to consistently defend itself against the AFRC/RUF rebels, the Kabbah regime was forced to make serious concessions in the Lome Peace Agreement of July 1999.Given that Nigeria was due to recall its ECOMOG forces without achieving a tactical victory over the RUF, the international community intervened diplomatically to promote negotiations between the AFRC/RUF rebels and the Kabbah regime.Following the Lome Peace Agreement, the security situation in Sierra Leone was still unstable because many rebels refused to commit themselves to the peace process.UNAMSIL forces began arriving in Sierra Leone in December 1999. This section will examine how those grievances were generated in Sierra Leonean society.The modern history of Sierra Leone goes back to 1787, when the Black Poor, mostly former soldiers from the British army, settled on the northern end of the Sierra Leone peninsula. The RUF did not demonstrate such an obvious aim in the beginning of the war, though.