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  2. Sierra Leone Civil War - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. 1991–2002 war in West Africa Sierra Leone Civil War Part of spillover of the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars Date 23 March 1991 – 18 January 2002 (10 years, 9 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) Location Sierra Leone Result Commonwealth victory Belligerents Sierra Leone SLA (before and ...

  3. Woodstock - Wikipedia

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    Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts. [21] [22] Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. [21]Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event.

  4. List of wars involving Sierra Leone - Wikipedia

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    Ndogboyosoi War (1982) All People's Congress: Sierra Leone People's Party: Indecisive. Indirect contribution to the rise of the Revolutionary United Front; Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991–2002) Sierra Leone. SLA [1] CDF [2] United Kingdom Guinea ECOMOG Forces Executive Outcomes Supported by: United States Belarus [3] UNAMSIL. RUF AFRC West ...

  5. Lungi Lol confrontation - Wikipedia

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    Sierra Leone is a former British colony in West Africa, close to the equator, with an area of 71,740 square kilometres (27,700 square miles)—similar in size to South Carolina or Scotland. [2] By 2000, the country had been engaged in a civil war between the government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF).

  6. Peace, music and memories: As the 1960s fade ... - AOL

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    The fabled music festival, seen as one of the seminal cultural events of the 1960s, took place 60 miles (96.5 kilometers) away in Bethel, New York, an even smaller village than Woodstock. An ...

  7. History of Sierra Leone - Wikipedia

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    Between 1991 and 2001, about 50,000 people were killed in Sierra Leone's civil war. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and many became refugees in Guinea and Liberia. In 2001, UN forces moved into rebel-held areas and began to disarm rebel soldiers. By January 2002, President Kabbah declared the civil war officially over.

  8. ‘We fall and we rise’: Some amputees in Sierra Leone turn to ...

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    The phrase encapsulates his journey since the civil war in Sierra Leone. From 1991 to 2002, conflict in the West African country created some 28,000 amputees like him. Amputation by machete was ...

  9. Sierra Leone - Wikipedia

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    Between 1991 and 2001, about 50,000 people were killed in Sierra Leone's civil war. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and many became refugees in Guinea and Liberia. In 2001, UN forces moved into rebel-held areas and began to disarm rebel soldiers. By January 2002, the war was declared over.