Ahmed Tejan Kabbah

Africa Confidential has learned that the operation to oust Koroma's junta was planned in considerable detail between overthrown President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah senior Nigerian military officers and the London-based security outfit Sandline run by ex-Special Air Service officers Tony Buckingham and Tim Spicer...

In the aftermath of reaching State House near the historic Cotton Tree in central Freetown police and Nigerian soldiers tried to maintain security amid much score-settling between supporters of ousted President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Koroma's junta...

Only deposed President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah as the sole player in the drama without either guns or money seems to take it seriously...

Under the accord Major Johnny Paul Koroma's Armed Forces Revolutionary Council undertook to hand over by next April to the elected government of Ahmed Tejan Kabbah; yet there is no sign that Koroma's government is serious about doing so...

Under the agreement the Nigerian-led Ecomog forces would cease hostilities against Freetown and end their naval and air blockade while Koroma's junta would agree to handover power to deposed President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in six months' time...

Hamza is Abacha's main gatekeeper shielding his superior from all but the closest colleagues or associates; his duties even extend to communicating instructions on developments in Sierra Leone (many of the Nigerian forces guarding deposed President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah were former colleagues of Hamza's from the elite Brigade of Guards)...

Kromah of the United Liberation Movement for Democracy-K had joined up with the Kamajor militias to restore Sierra Leone's elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah he was in the awkward position of asking the Ecowas forces to seal the border and keep Kromah out of Liberia...

Ecowas troops in Sierra Leone as part of their Liberia mandate became deeply involved there after the Freetown coup of 25 May when an uneasy coalition of soldiers under Major Johnny Paul Koroma and rebels of the Revolutionary United Front overthrew elected President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah...

Whether Koroma's regime gives way as a result of the embargo or of splits in its own ranks it's improbable that there will be a wholesale restoration of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and his Sierra Leone People's Party government...

Nigeria's paradoxical intervention in favour of Sierra Leone's civilian President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was calculated to win friends...