Armed Forces Revolutionary Council

The Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) were a group of Sierra Leone soldiers that allied itself with the rebel Revolutionary United Front in the late 1990s. While the AFRC briefly controlled the country in 1998, it was driven from the capital by a coalition of West African troops. It was no longer a coherent and effective organization by the elections of 2002.

Sierra Leone Civil War
Personalities
  • Charles Taylor
  • Foday Sankoh
  • Hinga Norman
  • Ahmad Kabbah
  • Johnny Paul Koroma
  • Valentine Strasser
  • Solomon Musa
Armed Forces
  • RUF
  • SLA
  • West Side Boys
  • Kamajors
  • Executive Outcomes
  • ECOMOG
  • Sandline International
Attempts at Peace
  • Lomé Peace Accord
  • Abidjan Peace Accord
  • UNAMSIL
  • SCSL
Political Groups
  • SLPP
  • AFRC
  • APC
  • NPRC
Ethnic Groups
  • Mende
  • Temne
  • Limba
  • Krio
See also
  • Conflict diamond
  • Mano River
  • Freetown
  • Liberian Civil War

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