Economic and Social Development: Abidjan Peace Agreement

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Economic and Social Development: Abidjan Peace Agreement

Implementations

Economic and Social Development – 1996

None of the socio-economic reform programs were initiated as the peace process quickly broke down.

Economic and Social Development – 1997

In January 1997, two months after the peace accord was signed, the SLPP government and Kamajors launched attacks against RUF units in northern Kailahun.1 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.2

  1. David Keen, Conflict and Collusion in Sierra Leone (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005),193-197.
  2. “Sierra Leone coup leader claims power,” The Independent (London), May 26, 1997, 13.

Economic and Social Development – 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.