Sierra Leone ratified the Slavery Convention on March 13, 1962. The wars in Sierra Leone and other West African countries in the 1990s spectacularly exposed the limits of national security based on inherited colonial borders, and political considerations that regional integration could be pursued without On March 23, a civil war began when the Revolutionary United Front, a group of 100 fighters from Sierra Leone and Liberia, invaded east Sierra Leone. This lesson will briefly summarize the Sierra Leone Civil War, how and why it started, and the key events of Sierra Leone's civil war from its beginning in 1991 to its end in 2002. Its land yields diamonds, gold, bauxite, and rutile (titanium dioxide). The Sierra Leone 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 from the special forces of Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh government. It entails the history of Sierra Leone from its days as a slave harbor through to its founding as a home for free slaves and toward its political independence and civil war. Sierra Leone; and • efforts that can be made to help Sierra Leone reconcile with its past, including the prospect of a reparations programme and the development of a National Vision for Sierra Leone. The conflict in Sierra Leone dates from March 1991 when fighters of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) launched a war from the east of the country near the border with Liberia to overthrow the government. Sierra Leone would “taste the bitterness of war” because of the country’s membership and backing of the West African Intervention Force (ECOMOG) that was attacking his bases in Liberia. Inequitable benefits-sharing of natural resource wealth was one of the drivers in the civil war that ravaged the country from 1991 to 2002. Three peace accords were signed in 1996, 1997 and 1999 in Abidjan, Conakry and Lame respectively. In making its findings and preparing its Report, the Commission took into account information gathered through a variety of means.

In 1978, under Siaka Stevens’s presidency, Sierra Leone became a republic and a one-party state. This book is a historical narrative of Sierra Leone from the mid-fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. 5 Article 7 (1) (g) lists enslavement as a crime against humanity with the definition given in Article 7 (2) (c). 3 / 24 Case Study Report Save the Children Sierra Leone.
State Decay and the Civil War The notion of state decay is critical for understanding the nature of power and the war in Sierra Leone. Then people on average were living mere 37 years. Since March 1991, Sierra Leone has experienced continuous civil strife culminat­ing in a protracted civil war, leading to widespread destructions of infrastructures and property, and the death of thousands of people, many more injured and over half of the population displaced. After 18 years in power, Stevens transferred power to his handpicked successor, Major General Joseph S. Momoh.

Internal conflict crippled the country from the late 1980s onward, culminating in a brutal civil war that took place from 1991 to 2002. Foday Sankoh, an ex-army sergeant led the RUF.
2 See Kaplan R., ‘The Coming Anarchy’; Atlantic Monthly, February 1994. 2 Sierra Leone: Environment, Conflict and Peacebuilding Assessment Introduction In Sierra Leone, the environmental causes and con-sequences of war have been prominent for the past 20 years. In 1992, the military the Sierra Leone People’s Party. war, the article expands their discourses of power and brings African political realities into the discourse of sociological theory. Although most of the population is engaged in subsistence agriculture, Sierra Leone is also a mining centre. 6. Rome Statute of

Also see Clapham C., In 1991, civil war broke out in the eastern part of Sierra Leone. ... Children who have lost their parents – due to the civil war from 1991 to 2002, the Ebola crisis in 2014 and 2015, or other crises – face challenges associated with a decline in economic resources and trauma. Causes of Sierra Leone's Civil War Prior to the civil war in 1990, Sierra Leone's life expectancy was even lower than it is today.