• The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), or the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary...
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    The 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état was a coup d'état against the government of Sierra Leone by a group of young military officers led by 25-year-old...
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    Sharjawi coup d'état attempt 1987 Tunisian coup d'état: Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali overthrew President Habib Bourguiba. Sierra Leone: On...
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    for questioning on 9 December. Sierra Leonean police chief Fayia Sellu said Koroma was a suspect in the coup attempt, and the government confirmed his...
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    motivations for the coup. Promises of a return to civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio. Prior to conducting the election, Sierra Leoneans and international...
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    The Coup Belt (French: la ceinture de coups d'État) is a modern geopolitical concept and neologism which emerged during the 2020s to describe the region...
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  • law, as well as crimes under relevant Sierra Leonean law within the territory of Sierra Leone since 30 November 1996." Both the Truth and Reconciliation...
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  • Valentine Strasser (category Sierra Leonean politicians)
    26 April 1967) is a former Sierra Leonean military officer who served as head of state of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996. He became the world's youngest...
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    1997 and March 1998 when a coup d'état deposed the government. The Constitution is divided into fourteen chapters. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic...
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    First Liberian Civil War (category Coup-based civil wars)
    and forced to flee the country, attempted to overthrow Doe's regime from neighbouring Sierra Leone. The coup attempt failed and Quiwonkpa was killed and...
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  • Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (category History of Sierra Leone)
    the Sierra Leonean military in 1997, who used it to carry out a coup d'etat against the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. The former Sierra Leone...
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  • covertly entered Liberia through Sierra Leone in an attempt to remove Doe from power. However, Quiwonkpa's coup d'état resulted in failure. Quiwonkpa was...
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    to Freetown in Sierra Leone after the Sierra Leonean President, Siaka Stevens, appeared to start losing his control of the Sierra Leonean military. Stevens...
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    Sierra Leone and Guinea were supporting the LURD, while Taylor was supporting opposition factions in both countries. By supporting Sierra Leonean rebels...
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    elite, later known as Fernandinos. The British had settled some 2,000 Sierra Leoneans and freed slaves during their brief control of the island in the early...
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    soldiers deployed to Monrovia, alongside Ghanaian, Nigerian, Guinean, and Sierra Leonean troops. Some in The Gambia questioned the goal of the mission and others...
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    Agostinho Neto) and radicals (led by Nito Alves), culminated in an attempted coup d'état, after which the radicals were purged from the party's ranks and...
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    the Sierra Leoneans were sent to Liberia to take over the army by the British government because it had given Liberia a loan." .. "The Sierra Leonean commanders...
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    Nigerian chief General Maxwell Khobe, between Liberian dissidents and the Sierra Leonean Kamajors hunter militia, including chiefs Samuel Hinga Norman and Eddie...
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    experienced military coups d'état – two in Mali, one in Guinea, and two in Burkina Faso. When a fourth member, Niger, experienced a coup d'état in July 2023,...
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  • Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état. 1988 – The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea...
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    Mark Thatcher as a financial backer of the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt organized by Simon Mann. Various accounts also named the United Kingdom's...
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    Retrieved 27 October 2014. Anderson, Mark (9 October 2014). "Ebola myths: Sierra Leonean DJ tackles rumours and lies over the airwaves". the Guardian. Retrieved...
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  • succession crisis. The succession crisis manifested in a 1999 military coup d'état and a violent dispute over the result of the 2000 presidential election...
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    November 2016). "Second NPRC Military Coup and Elections Before Peace". Free Slaves, Freetown, and the Sierra Leonean Civil War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan...
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  • (Hatfield) - Sierra Leonean Professor of English; wrote lyrics to the Sierra Leone National Anthem Eldred D. Jones – literary critic from Sierra Leone Malcolm...
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    Africa, and support for a range of "revolutionary" causes. After the 1969 coup d'état, U.S.-Libyan relations became increasingly strained. Gaddafi closed American...
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    to house arrest by order of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. An attempted coup d'état in Ecuador ended only hours after it started, without any violence...
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  • Nairobi, Kenya after saving a boy's life 5 March – Solomon Berewa, 81, Sierra Leonean politician, Vice-President (2002–2007). 9 March – Suleiman Dori, 42...
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