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Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (né le 16 février 1932) est l'actuel président de la Sierra Leone. Il est le chef du parti politique Sierra Leone People Party (SLPP).

Il est fonctionnaire au sein du Programme des Nations unies pour le développement (PNUD) jusqu'à son retour en Sierra Leone en 1992.
Il est élu président de la république le 15 mars 1996 avec 59,5% des voix. Il forme un cabinet multi-ethnique et multi-partis. Il promet des négociations de paix avec le Revolutionary United Front (RUF), responsable de la guerre civile qui y règne depuis mars 1991.

Le 25 mai 1997, il est contraint à l'exil en Guinée-Bissau suite au coup d'État de Johnny Paul Koroma, leader de l'AFRC (pour Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Conseil Révolutionnaire des Forces Armées), un groupe d'anciens membres de l'armée de Sierra Leone. Grâce à l'intervention militaire de l'ECOMOG, il retourne à la présidence le 10 mars 1998.

Avec son gouvernement, il signe le 10 novembre 2000, dans la ville de Abuja au Nigeria, un cessez-le-feu avec le RUF. [Suite]

Source: wikipedia.org

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (born February 16, 1932) is the current President of Sierra Leone (1996–1997, 1998–present). He worked for the United Nations Development Programme, and returned to Sierra Leone in 1992. He was elected president in 1996. Most of his time in office was influenced by a civil war with the Revolutionary United Front, led by Foday Sankoh, which involved him being temporarily ousted by the military Armed Forces Revolutionary Council from May 1997 to March 1998. He was soon returned to power after a military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Another phase of the civil war led to United Nations and British involvement in the country in 2000. The civil war was officially declared over in early 2002, and Kabbah went on to win yet another term in office in the presidential election later that year.

Kabbah was born in Pendembu, Kailahun District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, on 16 February 1932. An ethnic Mandinka, Kabbah was born of Muslim parentage and a devout Muslim himself. He received his secondary education at St. Edward's, the oldest catholic secondary school in the country. He also married a Catholic, the late Patricia Kabbah, born Tucker, who hailed from the Southern Province. He received his higher education at the Cardiff College of Technology and Commerce, and University College Aberystwyth, Wales, in the United Kingdom, with a Bachelor's degree in Economics in 1959. He later studied law, and in 1969 he became a practicing Barrister-at-Law, member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, London [More]

Source: wikipedia.org