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 from the special forces of Liberian dictator Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), [14] intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow the Joseph Momoh ...

The siege of Freetown was a battle during the Sierra Leone Civil War. It began when Johnny Paul Koroma took over the power [1] from Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and began a dictatorship. [2] In response, ECOMOG troops, led by Nigeria, helped the Sierra Leone Army to attack and remove Koroma from power and Kabbah was elected back in post.

2017年1月16日 · With help from United Nations forces, British troops, and Guinean air support, the Sierra Leone Army finally defeated the RUF before they could take control of Freetown. On January 18, 2002, newly installed President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah declared the Sierra Leone Civil War had finally ended.

2021年1月6日 · In the early morning hours of January 6, thousands of rebels massed near the suburb of Calaba Town some eight miles east of Freetown and began to march westward, firing rapidly into the air. This served to frighten the civilian population of the densely populated east, provoking a mass exodus of people who fled in panic towards central Freetown.

2000年2月3日 · A 2000 documentary about life in Freetown, Sierra Leone during the civil war.

In the early hours of January 6, l999, rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) launched an offensive against the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown, capturing it from government troops and...

1999年6月25日 · In a report released on the eve of an important United Nations visit to Freetown, Human Rights Watch documented how entire families were gunned down in the street, children and adults had their...

This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone’s history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002. 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.

2016年11月23日 · This chapter is a narrative of conflicts in Freetown after the departure of Governor John Clarkson and attempts by the new governor to impose property rent in contravention of promises to the settlers. This chapter also discusses the Maroons, runaway Jamaican slaves...

Like the January 6 Invasion of Freetown, the country is today fighting another deadly war whose adversary is invisible. And this war is the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) whose outbreak in the...