Demobilization: Abidjan Peace Agreement

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Demobilization: Abidjan Peace Agreement

Implementations

Demobilization – 1996

The parties failed to establish the Demobilization and Resettlement Committee. The Assembly Zones were not set up and no troop movements took place this year.1

  1. “Sierra Leone rebels come to capital for talks,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, December 19, 1996.

Demobilization – 1997

The Assembly Zones were not established and no troop movements took place prior to May 1996. In May of 1997, Major Johnny Paul Koroma and his soldiers formed an alliance with RUF troops and toppled Sierra Leone’s government. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah fled into Guinea.1

  1. “Sierra Leone coup leader claims power,” The Independent (London), May 26, 1997, 13.

Demobilization – 1998

In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.1

Coding for this case ceased on December 31, 1998.

  1. “Uppsala Conflict Data Program,” Uppsala University Department of Peace and Conflict Research, accessed June 3, 2011, www.ucdp.uu.se/database.