Media Reform – 1998

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Media Reform – 1998

1998

No Implementation No implementation

At least 20 reporters were imprisoned in 1998 for critical coverage of the government’s handling of the war.1

In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.2

Coding for this case ceased on December 31, 1998.

  1. “Sierra Leone 1998,” Committee to Project Journalists, accessed Jan 19, 2015, http://cpj.org/reports/1998/05/sierra.php.
  2. “Uppsala Conflict Data Program,” Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research, accessed June 3, 2011, www.ucdp.uu.se/database.