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 Ahmad Tejan Kabbah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Kabbah's wife Patricia, an ethnic Mende, died in 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ahmad_Tejan_Kabbah   (1306 words)

  
 Arabi Ahmad - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Ahmad Arabi, also known as Ahmad Urabi, was commissioned in the Egyptian...
Ahmad was the hereditary chief of the Abdali,...
Shahnon, Ahmad (1933- ), Malaysian novelist and academic, one of the leading literary chroniclers of social and economic change over the decades...
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 State House - Freetown, Sierra Leone
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah is a thoroughly dishonest, unscrupulous and wicked man. In 1967, the Beoku-Betts Commission of Inquiry concluded that Tejan Kabbah lacks integrity and could easily lapse into corrupt practices.
Ahmad Tejan Kabba took over the reins of power in Sierra Leone, the Armed Forces of the Republic or Sierra Leone have been maintained on threats and intimidatory remarks.
Mr., Tejan Kabbah has publicly said that he only found out that there were no drugs in the Army after his wife’s visit to the Military hospital in Freetown a few weeks before the military takeover.
www.sulima.com /pubs/jpk18897.html   (1662 words)

  
 TIME Europe Magazine: Diamond In the Rough --   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Kabbah's initial hold on office was so tenuous that foreign troops had to intervene to reinstate him when he was briefly ousted by disgruntled soldiers in 1997.
Kabbah rejects such charges and says an anticorruption commission, which he refers to as his "baby," is making inroads against one of the country's most pervasive problems.
Kabbah: The data they had were from the war, and during that time more than half the country was under the control of the rebels.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,338590,00.html   (700 words)

  
 CNN.com - Kabbah declared winner in S. Leone - May 19, 2002
Kabbah won 70.03 percent of the votes, easily topping the 55 percent he needed to avoid a second round against Ernest Koroma, candidate of Sierra Leone's former ruling party, the All People's Congress.
Kabbah's party also secured a majority in parliament, where he has relied on the support of smaller parties since 1996.
Kabbah, a 70-year-old former diplomat who spent two decades out of the country of 5.3 million before returning to win 1996 elections, is credited by Sierra Leoneans with bringing the massive foreign intervention that ended the war.
edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/05/19/sierra.leone.result   (633 words)

  
 Sierra Leone: President: Lady Patricia Kabbah Trust Fund Awards Eight Scholarships
Reflecting on the academic achievements of the awardees, Ahmed Kabbah Jr.
President Kabbah stated that this ceremony has always been what his late wife had wished, that is to ensure that the girl child not only grows up in a conducive environment, but also excels.
President Kabbah took this opportunity to address teachers who adopt the attitude of going to school and not teaching the children with the excuse of not been paid.
www.statehouse.sl /lady-pat-tfund-jan26.html   (667 words)

  
 Interview with President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah - Peter C. Andersen -- Sierra Leone Web
Kabbah also expressed concern about the potential for instability when traditional chiefs return to their homes, possibly displacing local leaders appointed by the rebels.
Kabbah also warned that unless the problem of corruption could be brought under control, the same conditions which gave rise to Sierra Leone's civil war in 1991 could again plunge the country into chaos.
Also key to ending the conflict, Kabbah stressed, is the re-establishment of government authority in areas until recently occupied by the rebels, and he pointed to the role of the local district councils in laying the groundwork for deployment of police and security forces in those areas.
www.sierra-leone.org /kabbahinterview0601.html   (1123 words)

  
 Kabbah says Taylor already jailed once in Freetown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In his testimony, Tejan Kabbah sought to distance himself from atrocities committed by the Civil Defence Force (CDF), a militia set up to help defend his government from attacks by the RUF, after he was first elected president in 1996.
Sam Hinga Norman, the former head of the CDF, who was Tejan Kabbah's interior minister until his arrest by the Special Court in March this year, and a couple of other CDF leaders, have also been indicted for war crimes similar to those committed by the RUF.
Tejan Kabbah told the TRC: "As President I did not and could not have interfered in the operations or the internal organisations of the CDF as I was not a member of the society to which all the members of the CDF had to belong and which created a bond among them."
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=35832   (526 words)

  
 Sierra Leone: Biography of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
President Kabbah 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.
President Kabbah also headed UNDP operations in Tanzania and Uganda, and just before Zimbabwe's independence, he was temporarily assigned to that country to help lay the groundwork for cooperation with the United Nations system.
President Kabbah's first major objective was to end the rebel war which, in four years had already claimed hundreds of innocent lives, driven thousands of others into refugee status, and ruined the nation's economy.
www.statehouse-sl.org /biodata.html   (1064 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Sierra Leone's Kabbah urges unity
Referring to the peaceful nature of the elections Mr Kabbah said that "one of the most far-reaching decisions in the country's current history" had been made and he pledged to battle corruption and hunger, and improve human rights.
President Kabbah's party, the Sierra Leone Peoples' Party, won 83 of the 112 seats while the former ruling All People's Congress took 27 and the remaining two went to the party of a one-time junta leader, Johnny Paul Koroma.
Mr Kabbah, who was a UN diplomat for 20 years before going into politics, succeeded in encouraging a UN peacekeeping force to intervene in 1999 and also won strong military backing from the former colonial power, Britain.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1997843.stm   (556 words)

  
 OTAL - Sierra Leone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Born in 1932, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was educated in Sierra Leone and Britain.
It is hoped the elections, held with considerable assistance from a United Nations peacekeeping force, could mark the end of 10 years of conflict and signal a smooth transition from war to democracy.
President Kabbah's party, the Sierra Leone Peoples' Party, won 83 of the 112 seats while Mr Koroma's supporters took 27 and the remaining two went to the party of a one-time junta leader, Johnny Paul Koroma.
www.otal.com /sierra/sierraministry.htm   (750 words)

  
 CNN - Sierra Leone president reported safe as fighting rages - January 7, 1999
Kabbah was taken on Wednesday by helicopter to a military base used by ECOMOG near the international airport and was still there on Thursday.
Since his reinstatement Kabbah had not reoccupied the State House, which was no longer used as the seat of government.
Sankoh was sentenced to death in October on treason charges after a coup that overthrew President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in May 1997.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9901/07/sierra.leone.01/index.html   (748 words)

  
 Sierra Leone: The Main Players 5/12/99
Its current democratically elected president, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, was reinstated in February 1998 after being toppled by a military junta in May 1997.
Kabbah worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for some 20 years and critics say he is more of a civil servant than a politician.
ECOMOG was deployed in Freetown to support Kabbah's democratically elected government and ousted the AFRC in 1998.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Hornet/irin_51299b.html   (1284 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Kabbah: Sierra Leone's comeback king
President Kabbah had outwitted his arch-rival Charles Margai, a barrister whose father and uncle had both served as prime minister of Sierra Leone under the SLPP.
All this has been blamed on Mr Kabbah, who has brushed aside the criticism by pointing out that he brought an end to the war in the country.
On a personal level, President Kabbah has known personal tragedy: the loss of his wife Patricia in a London hospital in 1998 shortly after his reinstatement.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/1911506.stm   (634 words)

  
 ahmad tejan kabbah information -- ahmad tejan kabbah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Head of State: Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Head of Government: History of Sierra-leone From the 9th century BC the area now known as Algeria was ruled by Carthage, and subsequently by Rome 2nd century BC...
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President Ahmad Tejan KABBAH (since 29 March 1996, reinstated 10 March 1998); note - the president is both the chief of...
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (born February 16, 1932) is the President of Sierra Leone (1996-1997, 1998 - present).
www.figopresident.info /ahmadtejankabbah   (1104 words)

  
 Official Biography of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah - Updated June 2003 - Sierra Leone Web
Born of Moslem parentage and a devout Moslem himself, he received his secondary education at St. Edward's, the oldest catholic secondary school in the country.
Once again, in pursuit of peace, President Kabbah signed another peace agreement with the RUF rebel leader Foday Sankoh in July 1999.
President Kabbah, as Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone holds an honorary doctor of laws degree of the University.
www.sierra-leone.org /kabbah-biography0603.html   (919 words)

  
 Ibn Hanbal Ahmad - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad (780–855), founder of the last of the four main schools of Sunni Islamic law, the Hanbali.
Ibn Hanbal, Ahmad (quotations): Prayer: Command your children to perform ritual…
Command your children to perform ritual prayer when they are seven, and beat them for neglecting it when they are ten.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Ibn_Hanbal_Ahmad.html   (135 words)

  
 Sierra Leone: News & Information: President: State House: Ahmad Tejan Kabbah:
Delivering his address, President Kabbah reflected on his pledge of food security four years ago, stating that the celebration of the World Food Day is to give an opportunity to Sierra Leoneans to assess how far they have come along the road to achieving the goal of self-sufficiency in food production.
President Kabbah was later joined by President Festus Gontebanye Mogae at the Government guest house in Gaborone, were both Presidents held fruitful discussions on several issues of mutual benefit especially in the Mining and Tourism sectors.
On Thursday 7th September 2006, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, accompanied by Vice President Solomon Berewa, Government Ministers and officials, Mayors of the four provincial municipalities of Kenema, Bo, Makeni and Koidu, members of the civil society including journalists inspected the buses and specialized vehicles at the Military Headquarters, Cockerill, Freetown.
www.statehouse-sl.org   (1013 words)

  
 CNN.com - Sierra Leone's Kabbah wins in landslide - May 19, 2002
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (CNN) -- Thousands of supporters of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah took to the streets Sunday in the afternoon heat of this West African nation to celebrate their candidate's overwhelming victory in last week's election.
Kabbah, the Sierra Leone People's Party candidate, won 70 percent of the vote; All People's Congress Party candidate Ernest Karoma was second with 22 percent.
He is credited with persuading the United Nations to become involved in Sierra Leone, creating conditions that led to the end of the civil war in 1999.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/05/19/sierra.leone.election   (448 words)

  
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In the absence of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, who is living in exile in Nigeria and backed the Sierra Leone Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group, and RUF leader Foday Sankoh who died of a stroke while in the Court’s custody, Norman is the most high profile figure to appear on war crimes charges.
When Kabbah was toppled in a 1997 coup he fled to Guinea and it was there, said Norman, that the president enlisted his help to form a pro-government fighting force.
Peace-sealing elections gave Kabbah a landslide victory in 2002 and a further five-year mandate as president.
www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=51495   (1023 words)

  
 News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
President Kabbah praised during the meeting the successes realized by the 8th ordinary session of the Conference of Leaders and Head of States of the Cen-sad Community.
He underlined that the Leader's presidency of the community would strengthen its march by achievements that would make the structure of the community enduring and standing revealed to be positively reflected on the African Union, for which the community constitutes the base of the pyramid and corner stone.
The Leader and President Kabbah reviewed during the meeting the preparations underway to hold the 7th ordinary session of Conference of the African Union in Banjul.
en.ljbc.net /online/news_details.php?id=1638   (136 words)

  
 News
President, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone renewed his appreciation of the sincere efforts made by the Leader in order that peace prevail through in the African continent in general.
President Kabbah added that the Libyan assistance is highly welcomed and appreciated by all people of Sierra Leone who have great respect to the Leader, Muammar Al-Gathafi.
President Kabbah affirmed, during this meeting his support of the Leader's constant efforts to speed up the completion of forming the structure of the institutions of the Great African Union.
en.ljbc.net /online/news_details.php?id=1035   (209 words)

  
 TermPapers-TermPapers.com - A Civil War
However, President Kabbah returned to office on March 10, 1998 to face the task of restoring order to a demoralized population and a disorganized and severely damaged economy.
President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was inaugurated March 29, 1996, and President Kabbah is both the chief of state and the head of government.
ECOMOG reinstated President Kabbah in March, but the intervention force had been embroiled in fighting with junta soldiers and their allies of the rebel Revolutionary United Front.
www.termpapers-termpapers.com /dbs/c4/hsz17.shtml   (2780 words)

  
 Expo Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
To cut a long story short the whole interview was full of the usual kabbah propaganda, lies and deceit, an exercise in political masturbation.
Kabbah propagandist and "Goebbel" Julius Spencer to know that the SLPP and the British are planning to indefinitely stay in power or massively rig the
But let me warn Kabbah through my writing (since I don’t have, don’t intend or don’t even know how to us a gun to fight him).
www.expotimes.net /pastissues/issue00118/Kabbah.htm   (666 words)

  
 President Kabbah: Hits Food Security Target
For eleven years Sierra Leone was under the grip of a cataclysm and after it the country grappled with numerous adversities chief among which was food shortage.
The food sufficiency program which was a dream of His Excellency president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah is slowly coming to fruition.
Observers have described president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah as a " lucky shooter".
www.visitsierraleone.org /news/news_item.asp?NewsID=448   (571 words)

  
 President of Sierra Leone Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Ends four-Nation Official visits : Sierra Leone News
During his stay in London President Kabbah also held meetings with Sierra Leoneans resident in the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe and participated in a luncheon held in his honour at Gray’s Inn where he was calleds to the Bar many years ago.
Following the conclusion of the OIC summit, President Kabbah together with other leaders and their respective delegations were led by the Saudi King and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to perform the ‘Tawaf’ or circumambulation around the Ka’aba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest shrine on Thursday, 8th December.
President Kabbah welcomed their intentions and stated that Sierra Leone was now open for business and that an Investment Promotion Act or Investment Code, which he described as investor-friendly, has already been enacted to provide for and facilitate investment in Sierra Leone.
news.sl /drwebsite/publish/article_20051160.shtml   (1494 words)

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