General Ibrahima Baldé

When the moment came to act Doumbouya had the endorsement of other senior figures – in his immediate post-coup appearance he was flanked by Colonel Balla Samoura regional director of the gendarmerie in Conakry and the gendarmerie chief of staff General Ibrahima Baldé...

Bah who is also known as Ibrahima Balde Ibrahima Bah and General Abraham was deported from Sierra Leone on 27 July after AC revealed his presence in Freetown in defiance of a United Nations travel ban...

Bah who is also known as Ibrahima Balde Ibrahima Bah and General Abraham was deported from Sierra Leone on 27 July after AC revealed his presence in Freetown in defiance of a United Nations travel ban...

After Africa Confidential had revealed that Ibrahima Bah a warlord in Sierra Leone's civil war now under United Nations' sanctions was living unmolested in Freetown police arrested him on 7 June...

The government's reluctance to deport Bah (aka Ibrahima Balde or General Abraham) reinforces the argument of those who say he has political protection...

Ibrahima Bah aka General Abraham or Ibrahima Balde is residing in travelling from and freely conducting business in Freetown in spite of being under a United Nations-mandated assets freeze and travel ban since 2003...

Ibrahima Bah aka General Abraham or Ibrahima Balde is residing in travelling from and freely conducting business in Freetown in spite of being under a United Nations-mandated assets freeze and travel ban since 2003...

When he moved to Freetown in 2008 he was living as ‘Ibrahima Balde’ and travelling on a Senegalese passport...

He claimed that Bah – whom he knew as Ibrahima Balde – had defrauded him...

We have even heard that another Ibrahima Bah – it is a common name in parts of West Africa – was temporarily detained in Botswana by the immigration authorities on suspicion of being the man under UN sanctions...

As far as AC has been able to ascertain Sierra Leone is uninterested in acting against Ibrahima Bah or against a mercenary organisation operating in plain sight in its capital...

Transcripts from the Special Court on Sierra Leone’s trial of Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor contain copious evidence about the central role of Ibrahima Bah in diamond trading and arms supply under the heading ‘The Role of Intermediaries’...

‘The witness stated that Ibrahima Bah was a liaison with Charles Taylor and the witness was present in 1999 when Ibrahima Bah who said he was sent by Mr Taylor gave $USD 20 000 to Mr [Foday] Sankoh in Lomé… Prosecution Witness TF 1-567 an RUF [Revolutionary United Front] member testified that Foday Sankoh said that Ibrahima Bah from Burkina Faso was his friend that Ibrahima Bah was with the NPFL [National Patriotic Front of Liberia] and that he was helping the establishment of the RUF movement as an agent for the RUF...

According to the witness any time ‘Jungle’ went to see Charles Taylor Ibrahima Bah would join him and Sankoh told “us” that he often sent Ibrahima Bah on missions to see Taylor...

‘The witness said that Issa Sesay told him that he gave diamonds to Ibrahima Bah who said that he had business partners and Ibrahima Bah provided satellite phones computers food and US$50 000 for the RUF movement between 1999 and 2001… he testified that he and others went to Hotel Boulevard with diamonds to meet General Ibrahima [Bah] to make arrangements and Benjamin Yeaten would take Issa Sesay and General Ibrahima to bring the diamonds to Charles TayIor… [AC Vol 43 No 9 UN gumshoes in Taylorland] Ibrahima Bah said that he was sent by Mr Taylor with a message “asking” that the AFRC and RUF work together...

He said that Ibrahima Bah was a liaison officer who had been with the RUF...

After this meeting the witness took Ibrahima Bah to Johnny Paul Koroma’s house and Ibrahima Bah said again that Mr Taylor sent him with the message that they should work together’...

He testified that Ibrahima Bah “is now fully with Foday Sankoh based on even evidence before this court” and that he had no reason to doubt that Ibrahima Bah helped Foday Sankoh coordinate RUF affairs outside of Sierra Leone between 1996 and 1999’...

The Italian businessman who claims to have been cheated by Ibrahima Bah over gold deals Vittorio Narciso Ruello made other interesting connections through Bah in the region...

They are Cols Aboubacar Sidiki Camara Boundouka Condé Naby Ibrahima Soumah Siba Louhalamou Mamadou Korka Diallo Amadou Doumbouya and Mathurin Bangoura plus Lt Cols Lansana Touré and Ibrahima Baldé...

Meanwhile guided by the civil society leader Professor Ibrahima Baldé (who is also Chief of Staff of the Gendarmerie) the candidates and leading citizens call for peace and calm...

Ibrahima Baldé Gendarmerie Chief of Staff and Lieutenant Col...

The Gendarmerie Chief of Staff Ibrahima Baldé is Fulani from the north and a close friend of Camara but he knows Guinée Forestière (south-east Guinea) well and speaks the local language Guerze...