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16 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Bi-Monthly Information Report No.11

Report

— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs

Period covered: 19 November - 16 December 1996
This report has been prepared by the office of the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sierra Leone

1. Assessments by many different organisations have been made to determine humanitarian needs throughout much of Sierra Leone during the past month. Some of the areas visited include: Zimmi (UNHCR, UN-HACU, MSF, Food for Peace, CRS, ICRC), Pujehun, Bandajuma, Potoru (MNRRR, Food for Peace, CRS, ACF, UN-DPA, UN-HACU, MSF, CCSL, British Military Liaison Officer), Moyamba (MSF, Food for Peace, UN-HACU, Care). This list

10 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
Civilians Continue to be Mutilated and Killed Despite the Peace Accord

Report

Less than a week after a peace agreement was signed by the Government of Sierra Leone and the armed opposition Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to end a bloody internal conflict, more than 150 civilians have been brutally mutilated and killed in the north of the country, Amnesty International said today.
"There should be an immediate monitoring of human rights in Sierra Leone as only then there may be some hope of bringing such atrocities to an end," the organization said.

Amnesty International is calling for

05 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
Update No. 3 on ICRC Activities in Sierra Leone

Report

— ICRC

Sierra Leone's President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Revolutionary United Front (RUF) leader Foday Sankoh signed a peace accord on 30 November in Abidjan, Ctte d'Ivoire, ending more than five years of civil war in Sierra Leone. The agreement called for the immediate cessation of hostilities, the demobilization and disarmament of the RUF and its integration into the national army. Both parties and the mediators, the government of Ctte d'Ivoire, stressed that the agreement provided the framework for peace, but that strong leadership and considerable efforts

04 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
Security Council Welcomes Sierra Leone Peace Agreement

Report

— UN Security Council

SC/6299*
The Security Council this afternoon warmly welcomed the Peace Agreement signed by the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, on 30 November 1996, and expressed the hope that the Agreement would encourage those working for peace in other parts of Africa.

In a statement read out on the Council's behalf by its President, Francesco Paolo Fulci (Italy), the Council paid tribute to the courage and determination of all those who had worked tirelessly to bring the bitter conflict to an end. It commended, in particular, the

02 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
Secretary-General Praises Peace Agreement Ending Sierra Leone Conflict

Report

— UN Secretary-General

SG/SM/6117

Following is the text of a statement by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the signing of the Peace Agreement by the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front in Abidjan on 30 November:

I am pleased that the Peace Agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
has been signed today by President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and the RUF leader, Corporal Foday Saybana Sankoh.
According to the Agreement, the two sides have declared the armed conflict

01 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
Carte Administrative de la Sierra Leone

Map

— Food and Agriculture Organization

01 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
Densité de Population de la Sierra Leone

Map

— Food and Agriculture Organization

01 Dec 1996

Sierra Leone
President Kabbah Signs Peace Accord With Rebels

Report

— Pan African News Agency

ABIDJAN, Cote D'Ivoire (PANA) - Sierra Leonian president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and the head of the rebel Revolutionary United Front, Foday Sankoh, concluded a peace accord Saturday in Abidjan.
The accord, which should end more than five years of war which has claimed some 10,000 lives, was signed at the presidential palace, in the Ivorian commercial town in the presence of the President Henri Konan Bedie, who brokered the negotiations.

The event followed eight months of negotiations between the Sierra leonian government and Sankoh's movement.

It provides for the immediate end to

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28 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: The Preparation to Sign a Peace Accord Signal Possible End of Fighting

Report

— Voice of America

DATE=11/28/96
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-206806
TITLE=SIERRA LEONE / PEACE (L-ONLY)
BYLINE=PURNELL MURDOCK
DATELINE«IDJAN
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:

INTRO: SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND LEADERS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY "UNITED FRONT" REBEL GROUP ARE GATHERING IN IVORY COAST, IN HOPES OF SIGNING A PEACE DEAL TO END SIERRA LEONE'S SIX-YEAR CIVIL WAR. V-O-A CORRESPONDENT PURNELL MURDOCK REPORTS FROM THE IVORIAN COMMERCIAL CAPITAL, ABIDJAN.

TEXT: THE PREPARATIONS TO SIGN A PEACE ACCORD SIGNAL THE POSSIBLE END OF FIGHTING AND CULMINATE

23 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
WFP Emergency Report No. 46 of 1996: Sierra Leone

Report

— World Food Programme

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone.
From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. Available on the Internet at WFP Home Page http://www.wfp.org/ or by e-mail from HicksDeb@wfp.org (fax 39 6 5228 2837). For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP Rome, telephone no. 39 6 5228 2504 or 5228 2004.

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS
(Details below in Part II)

B. LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE

1. Liberia

a) Demobilisation programme due to begin

21 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
SG Pleased by Agreement in Sierra Leone

Report

— UN Secretary-General

21 November 1996 SG/SM/6112

SECRETARY-GENERAL PLEASED BY AGREEMENT IN SIERRA LEONE, CALLS FOR GOOD FAITH
IMPLEMENTATION

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali:

The Secretary-General is pleased to learn that the President of Sierra Leone, Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and Corporal
Foday Saybana Sankoh, leader of the Revolutionary United Front, have issued a joint press release in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 20 November 1996 and

18 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Bi-Monthly Information Report No.10

Report

— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs

Period covered: 6-18 November 1996
This report has been prepared by the office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone

1. At the most recent MNRRR-NGO Consultative Group meeting held on 13 November and attended by representatives from MNRRR, NGOs and UN-HACU, agreement was reached on all sides on the precise information required by MNRRR in order to compile an operational profile of NGOs currently working in Sierra Leone. The information required from each NGO includes: Any previous registration with other line ministries,

12 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
Four dead in Sierra Leone clashes amid fears of rebel attacks

Report

— Agence France-Presse

FREETOWN, Nov 12 (AFP) - Clashes in central Sierra Leone and false alarms of rebel assaults near Freetown this week have left at least four people dead and spread panic in a displaced persons' camp, military sources said Tuesday.

Soldiers and members of a militia force Monday staged a "rescue operation" at a Revolutionary United Front (RUF) base in the Kangari hills, 115 kilometers (7O miles) east of the capital.

The mission was spurred by reports that some 200 civilians living there were in poor health and being mistreated, defence sources in Freetown said.

Agence France-Presse:

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11 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
Update on the Nutrition Situation of Refugees and Displaced People No. 2

Report

— UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Excerpt from:UPDATE ON THE NUTRITION SITUATION OF REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PEOPLE
While the cease-fire declared in Sierra Leone is generally holding, security incidents of varying degrees of intensity are reported. For example, recent clashes reported in Kenema left 49 people dead. As a result, relief operations were temporarily suspended and many NGOs relocated. The situation is, however, now more calm, and many relief activities have resumed [MERLIN 07/11/96, WFP 04/10/96].

As rebel forces are being pushed farther

08 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
WFP Emergency Report No. 44 of 1996: Sierra Leone

Report

— World Food Programme

PART I - HIGHLIGHTS
(Details below in Part II)
B. LIBERIA, SIERRA LEONE

2. Sierra Leone

a) Serious rupture in WFP cereal stocks in Freetown along with low levels of CSB and vegetable oil.

b) Conflict between government soldiers and kamajors (local militia) in Moyamba district, and in Bo.

c) A further 2,000 people liberated from RUF captivity by kamajors not far from Freetown.

PART II - DETAILS

2. SIERRA LEONE

2.1 WFP Freetown cereal stocks have been depleted, with CSB and vegetable oil stocks at extremely low

07 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: Emergency Medical activities in Bo

Report

— ICRC

Clashes in Bo on 29 and 30 October between the Sierra Leonean armed forces and Kamanjoes (traditional hunter groups recently formed into militias) resulted in dozens of casualties. The ICRC immediately dispatched a nurse to the city to join a delegate already at the scene. The two worked with first-aid staff from the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society, evacuating the wounded and visiting the government hospital, which treated some twenty patients suffering from gunshot wounds.
The ICRC is carrying out a medical and public health programme in the Kenema, Kailahun and Pujehun districts in

05 Nov 1996

Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Bi-Monthly Information Report No.9

Report

— UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs

Period covered: 22 October - 5 November 1996
This report has been prepared by the office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Sierra Leone

GENERAL

1. (a) Thirty-nine expatriate relief workers were temporarily evacuated from Bo town on 30 October, 1996 as a result of the latest in a series of clashes between the kamajors and the military in the Southern and Eastern Provinces of Sierra Leone. The catalyst for this latest eruption of violence in Bo town was an incident which took place on 29 October in Talama village, which is situated to

25 Oct 1996

Sierra Leone
WFP finds starving people in Sierra Leone

Report

— World Food Programme

World Food Programme officials in Sierra Leone have found hundreds of emaciated people who were held in virtual slavery by rebels in the strife-torn country. Officials believe thousands more people could be hiding in the bush in similar condition, scavenging for food.
"The people we saw looked like a group of living skeletons with bundles of rags on their heads," said Mohamed Diab, WFP's country director in Sierra Leone.

WFP officials travelled on Wednesday with representatives of the United States embassy, the Sierra Leonean Ministry

25 Oct 1996

Liberia + 1 other
WFP Emergency Report No. 42 of 1996: Liberia and Sierra Leone

Report

— World Food Programme

This report includes: A) Burundi, Rwanda, Zaire and Tanzania B) Liberia and Sierra Leone C) Iraq D) Afghanistan
From P. Ares, Chief, Programming Service. For information regarding resources, donors are requested to contact Mr. F. Strippoli or Mr. M. Crosthwaite, WFP Rome (Ph. 39 6 5228 2504 or 5228 2004). Transmission problems should be reported by fax to 39 6 5228 2837.

B. LIBERIA AND SIERRA LEONE

1. Liberia

a) Members of joint WFP/UNICEF/NGO mission to Bo-Waterside seized by ULIMO-K fighters at Tiene, robbed, and taken 20 km before being released.

2. Sierra Leone

25 Oct 1996

Sierra Leone
WFP finds starving people in Sierra Leone

Report

— World Food Programme

World Food Programme officials in Sierra Leone have found hundreds of emaciated people who were held in virtual slavery by rebels in the strife-torn country. Officials believe thousands more people could be hiding in the bush in similar condition, scavenging for food.
"The people we saw looked like a group of living skeletons with bundles of rags on their heads," said Mohamed Diab, WFP's country director in Sierra Leone.

WFP officials travelled on Wednesday with representatives of the United States embassy, the Sierra Leonean Ministry

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