When the British forces arrived in Sierra Leone, the rebels were again in full advance and close to the capital Freetown. There was understandable fear among the civilian population. Government forces were demoralised. The multi national UN peace keeping mission faced a worsening situation without th...
Lansana Gberie
Rebel attacks continued and most of Freetown was occupied by the rebels on 6th January 1999; ECOMOG eventually forced them out but over 5,000 people were killed during the rebel invasion and occupation. A ceasefire was agreed in May 1999 and on 7th July 1999 the Lome Peace Agreement was sig...
POLITICS-SIERRA LEONE: REBELS ATTACK CATTLE FARMERS IN THE NORTHLansana Fofana
Sierra Leone Rebels Attack UN Peacekeeping ForcesRebel forces battled UN peacekeepers in the interior of Sierra Leone, a UN spokesman said yesterday. In Freetown, the capital, UN troops mobilised on the ground and in the air.Bird, Simon
to the hospital, and a vast majority of patients consult traditional healers. Because of this combination of circumstances, an initially small medical problem often leads to amputation. Furthermore, many amputees lost their limbs because of acts of violence by the rebels during the civil war. ...
The civil war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002) is familiar to Western observers with the media portrayals of terror tactics carried out by combatants against a powerless populace. The main fighting factions were the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels and the Sierra Leone Army, portions of ...
Sierra Leone's military is currently attempting reorganization. There are an estimated forty-five thousand total combatants that previously made up the different factions of the war—ex-Sierra Leone army soldiers, civilian militias, and RUF rebels. Few of these have followed up on agreements made...
[5, p. 180] notes the tendency of soldiers to desert and join up with rebels to loot and sell Sierra Leone's diamonds for example—the consequences of state collapse for other “non-contested” natural resources (and the users thereof) has been somewhat neglected in the state failure ...
Neighboring Guinea remains politically unstable after a coup in 2021. Sierra Leone itself is still healing from a 11-year civil war that ended more than two decades ago. Its population of 8 million people is among the poorest in the world. ...