Ahmed Tejan Kabbah

While many Westerners and expatriate Sierra Leoneans argue that the RUF’s brutal assault on Freetown and operations in the diamond-rich eastern region make negotiations unavoidable for President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah’s government the mood inside the country has hardened...

Northerners believe that while they suffer most from the rebel operations they have no political sway in President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's government...

Like President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and his government the Nigerians have refused to negotiate with these men...

Conté's support for Freetown's elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah has been met with revenge attacks by rebels from Corporal Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front one of which killed ten people and burned 100 houses in Faranah region in early November...

Several members of parliament believe that the independent inquiry set up after the row over the Sandline security company’s role in reinstating President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah left too many questions unanswered...

Freetown's vocal public opinion - and President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's influential Mende backers - demands the execution of the 16 civilians (including journalists politicians and civil activists) who were sentenced for treason and conspiracy in Freetown's High Court on 24 August...

They include Sierra Leonean President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah who accompanied Nigerian Foreign Minister Tom Ikimi on the flight from Ouagadougou as soon as the news of Abacha's death reached the Organisation of African Unity summit...

Stout defenders of ‘contracting-out' foreign policy point to the success of the Sierra Leone operation: the ‘good guys' (in the shape of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah) defeated the brutal junta of Major Johnny Paul Koroma...

Bafflement and disgust are the main reactions in Freetown to the row that has blown up in Britain about President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's hiring of London-based security outfit Sandline International in his efforts to topple Major Johnny Paul Koroma's military junta...

President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's Ministers say the Sandline deal was tied to diamond prospecting licences...

Indeed President Conté was second only to Nigeria in his support for deposed President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah although opposition parties and even some of Conte's own Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès oppose Guinean military involvement in Sierra Leone...