The Sierra Leone Civil War bere ni 23 March 1991 nigbati Revolutionary United Front (RUF), pelu itileyin latowo awon ajagun pataki National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) ti Charles Taylor, fe fi tipatipa leJoseph Momoh to je aare orile-ede Sierra Leone kuro lori ijoba, eyi fa ogun to pa awon eniyan to to 50,000. Gberie, p. 6