Reintegration: Abidjan Peace Agreement

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Reintegration: Abidjan Peace Agreement

Implementations

Reintegration – 1996

The parties failed to establish both the Demobilization and Resettlement Committee and the Assembly Zones. No troop movements took place this year.1

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

Reintegration – 1997

The parties failed to initiate any aspect of the DDR program prior to May 1997. In May 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.

Reintegration – 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.