Withdrawal of Troops: Abidjan Peace Agreement

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Withdrawal of Troops: Abidjan Peace Agreement

Implementations

Withdrawal of Troops – 1996

According to the The Courier Mail (Queensland), foreign troops were supporting the Sierra Leone army against the RUF and those forces were not withdrawn immediately after the signing of the peace agreement.1

  1. “Sierra Leone rocked by coup,” Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia), May 27, 1997.

Withdrawal of Troops – 1997

After the military coup in May 1997, all foreign troops supporting the army were ordered back to their respective local bases.2 The leader of the military coup (Major Johnny Paul Koroma) was involved in negotiations on May 31, 1997 with senior representatives of other West African states in an effort to prevent a conflict between the foreign troops inside Sierra Leone and his Units.3

Together with Ivory Coast, Guinea and Ghana, Nigeria began an effort in July 1997 to restore President Kabbah to power.

  1. “Sierra Leone rocked by coup,” Courier Mail.
  2. “Sierra Leone coup leader in talks to avert military intervention,” Deutsche Presse-Agentur, May 31, 1997.

Withdrawal of Troops – 1998

In 1998, the former government ousted the RUF/AFRC government. RUF and the former government returned to full scale civil war in 1998.4

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.