Electoral/Political Party Reform: Abidjan Peace Agreement

Written by

« Back to Accord

Electoral/Political Party Reform: Abidjan Peace Agreement

Implementations

Electoral/Political Party Reform – 1996

The accord called for the legalization of RUF as a political party and the formation of a National Electoral Commission to reform the country’s electoral processes. There were no reports of these developments beginning in 1996 as fighting quickly renewed and demobilization was delayed.

Electoral/Political Party Reform – 1997

As of March 15, 1997, demobilization of the RUF had not begun.1 On May 26, 1997, Major Johnny Paul Koroma and his soldiers joined with RUF and toppled Sierra Leone’s government. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah fled into Guinea.2

  1. “Sierra Leone. Sliding back to war?,” The Economist, March 15, 1997, 43.
  2. “Sierra Leone coup leader claims power,” The Independent (London), May 26, 1997, 13.

Electoral/Political Party Reform – 1998

In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.3

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.