• The Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991–2002) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), with support...
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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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    1964) is a Sierra Leonean politician who has served as president of Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018. He is a retired brigadier in the Sierra Leone Army...
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    in February and November; the first led by Hugo Chávez. 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état: A group of young military officers, led by Captain Valentine...
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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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  • Resolution, Elections and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia, I.B. Tauris, 2012 Sierra Leone: Information on the 1997 coup d'etat, ECOMOG harassment of civilians...
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  • United Front from 1991 to 2002, the 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état brought the armed forces into power again. In 1997 the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council...
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  • Joseph Saidu Momoh (category Sierra Leonean Christians)
    1937 – August 3, 2003) was a Sierra Leonean politician and military officer who served as the second President of Sierra Leone from November 1985 to 29...
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  • The Sergeants' Coup was a military coup d'état in Sierra Leone that occurred on 18 April 1968 against Chairman of the National Reformation Council (NRC)...
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    home for questioning on 9 December. Sierra Leonean police chief Fayia Sellu said Koroma was a suspect in the coup attempt, and the government confirmed...
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  • Valentine Strasser (category Sierra Leonean politicians)
    Strasser (born 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...
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    and Sierra Leone. It was led by Raleigh Seekie, a deputy Minister of Finance in the Doe government. After fighting alongside the Sierra Leonean army...
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    Sheik-Umarr Mikailu Jah (category Sierra Leonean physicians)
    M. Jah, was a Sierra Leonean public servant, trained as a surgeon in Germany and one of the few medical specialists working in Sierra Leone throughout...
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  • 1965 1965 Burundian coup attempt July 8, 1966 July 1966 Burundian coup d'état November 28, 1966 November 1966 Burundian coup d'état 1972 Burundi genocide...
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  • Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (category 1997 establishments in 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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    Sierra Leonean Prime Minister. The Sierra Leonean monarch and the Sierra Leonean House of Representatives constituted the Parliament of Sierra Leone....
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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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    Sorie Ibrahim Koroma (category Sierra Leonean Muslims)
    (April 14, 1927 – April 30, 1994) commonly known as S.I. Koroma was a Sierra Leonean politician, labor activist, and one of the founding members of the All...
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  • Sierra Leonean government would begin the process of abolishing the death penalty in order to "uphold the fundamental human rights of Sierra Leoneans...
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  • retaliatory coup d'état against Doe. With the support of two dozen heavily armed soldiers, Quiwonkpa covertly entered Liberia through Sierra Leone in an...
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    Outcomes was utilized by the Sierra Leonean government to repel RUF forces between March 1995 and March 1997 during the Sierra Leone Civil War. Some of the...
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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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    Ernest Bai Koroma (category Sierra Leonean Methodists)
    Ernest Bai Koroma (born 2 October 1953) is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April...
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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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  • election (annulled by a coup 10 days later) 1962 Peruvian general election (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre) 1967 Sierra Leonean general election (Siaka...
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    overthrow of the socialist First Republic of Sierra Leone in a coup d'état and the outbreak of the Sierra Leone Civil War, various competing factions began...
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    Charles Taylor (Liberian politician) (category People convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone)
    Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. Taylor supported the 1980 Liberian coup d'état led by Samuel Doe, which resulted in the murder of President William...
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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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  • Elizabeth Alpha-Lavalie (category 21st-century Sierra Leonean women politicians)
    founded the Eastern Region Defence Committee following the 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état. She died on 15 December 2013, at the age of 66, following a month-long...
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