Following years of civil war between Revolutionary United Front (the RUF) and the government of Sierra Leone (dating from October 1991), the recently elected (January 1996) government of President Ahmad Kabbah negotiated a peace agreement with the RUF (the Abidjan Peace Accord) in November 1996. Kabbah was overthrown in a military coup (by the AFRC) a few months later in May 1997.
The analysis of the Sierra Leone case is divided into the following episodes (also navigable via the numbers in the top bar):