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Military Reform – 2001

The British continued supporting security sector reform in Sierra Leone through its training of the armed forces. As of September 2001, there were 600 British trainers, which was expected to drop to 300-400 once the government expanded its control of the country.¹

Through the Military Reintegration Programme (MRP), the UK-led International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT) undertook a series of training programs and assisted the Sierra Leone Armed ForcesÕ instructors at the Armed Force Training Center. MRP was “designed to integrate former RUF and CDF combatants who have been through the disarmament and demobilisation process, into the new RSLAF.².The size of RUF and CDF combatants to be integrated was said to be fairly modest, but the actual numbers are unavailable.

1. Mark Malan, Security and Military Reform, 2003. In eds. Malan, Mark, Sarah Meek, Thokozani Thusi, Jeremy Ginifer, Patrick Coker, “Sierra Leone: Building the Road to Recovery,” Institute for Security Studies, 2003,Monograph 80, http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/monographs/No80/content.html, page 97.
2. Ibid