Natural Resource Management: Lomé Peace Agreement
Implementations
Natural Resource Management – 1999
The purpose of the CMRRD was to regulate and control the mining of gold and diamonds in SL. On October 23, 1999, the President of Sierra Leone confirmed that the Revolutionary United Front leader, Corporal Foday Sankoh, would become the Chairman of the Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources, National Reconstruction and Development (CMRRD), as agreed in the Lomé agreement. The position holds the protocol rank of vice president.1
“On paper, the CMRRD was to be an autonomous body, whose head was responsible only to the president. Amidst such confusion, the CMRRD was never really constituted and Sankoh simply ignored his appointment and continued to fund his military and political programmes through mining proceeds from RUF activities in Kono District.”2
- “Sierra Leone: President confirms Kabbah’s posts as laid down in peace accord,” BBC Monitoring Africa — Political, October 24, 1999.
- “Implementing the Lomé Peace Agreement,” Conciliation Resources, 2000, http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/sierra-leone/implementing-lome.php, accessed November 3, 2010.
Natural Resource Management – 2000
Sankoh was arrested in May 2000. The CMRRD was disbanded once Sankoh was arrested.
Natural Resource Management – 2001
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2002
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2003
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2004
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2005
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2006
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2007
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2008
No further developments observed.
Natural Resource Management – 2009
No further developments observed.