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Sierra Leone

Ahmed Tejan Kabbah

Date of Birth: 16 February 1932
Died: 13 March 2014


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Anatomy of a failed coup in Freetown

He was also a leader of the coup that overthrew President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in 1997 and in the earlier military regime was a notorious enforcer of the junta's methods to regulate the artisanal diamond trade...


War crimes trial divides justice-seekers

After Sankoh's arrest in Freetown in 2000 – he died while in detention in 2003 – Massaquoi began to offer his co-operation in President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's government's campaign against the remnants of the RUF many of whom fled to Liberia to join President Charles Taylor's forces in that civil war...


Man in a hurry

The NPPA was set up by President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in 2004 but marginalised under Koroma whose government issued many important contracts by 'executive clearance' meaning they could not be reviewed or submitted to competitive bidding...


A bridge too far

The project to be built by PowerChina International is a resurrection of President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah's dream of a bridge over Tagrin Bay to connect the capital Freetown to Lungi international airport...


Narrow win constrains Bio

So is Alhaji Kanja Sesay a competent head of the post-civil-war National Commission for Reconstruction Resettlement and Rehabilitation under President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah who is to take up the difficult Energy brief...

The APC fears Bundu a veteran politician of sharp intellect who ran in the 1996 election against Ahmed Tejan Kabbah...


The politics of Ebola

After he was restored to power in 1998 following a coup which removed him for nine months Parliament granted President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah an extra year in office...


Two divided houses

In August the SLPP National Women's Leader Isatu Jabbie Kabbah the wife of former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (‘Pa Kabbah') complained that supporters of Bio had smashed the windscreen of her car and injured her sister...


Bah reveals official links

The government of then President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the Sierra Leone People's Party had detained them on suspicion of ‘subversion' in early 2006 but they had not yet been tried...


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