FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, June, 30, 2008, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former Sierra Leone president and head of the African Union Observer Mission to Zimbabwe addresses a press conference in ...

Sierra Leone's former President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah addresses the European Development Days conference in Brussels November 17, 2006. REUTERS/Yves Herman FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's former ...

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, the former president of Sierra Leone who has died aged 82, invited British forces to rescue his capital from a brutal rebel army, paving the way for Tony Blair’s most successful ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone --The leader who brought peace to strife-torn Sierra Leone was confirmed landslide winner of the country's-first post-war election on Sunday. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah ...

Freetown — I still remember the day President Kabbah took over the leadership of this country. It was a great turning point in our political history - a day of popular jubilation that buried - in the ...

The President of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, has told the country's truth and reconciliation commission that he had no say over the operations of pro-government militias during Sierra Leone's ...

He is from northern Sierra Leone's largest tribe, the Temne, in the north, where the APC enjoys most support. Ernest Koroma, 48, has little political experience but is seen as Ahmad Tejan Kabbah's ...

Freetown — Tejan Kabbah is a president who makes surprises. Ask Charles Margai who has contended twice with him. Even his critics have come to discover that he is too clever for their comfort. On July ...

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, the former president of Sierra Leone who oversaw the end of the country’s brutal civil war, has died. A nephew confirmed to The Associated Press that ...