Read the bio below and try to give details on ahmad tejan kabbah 's: - party - predecessor - birth date - profession - order - vicepresident - death date - spouse - office - term end - name - death place - birth place - successor - ethnicity - nationality - alma mater - children - term start - image - religion Bio: alhaji ahmad tejan kabbah -lrb- february 16 , 1932 -- march 13 , 2014 -rrb- was the third president of sierra leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007 . an economist and attorney by profession , kabbah spent many years working for the united nations development programme . he retired from the united nations and returned to sierra leone in 1992 . in early 1996 , kabbah was elected leader of the sierra leone people 's party -lrb- slpp -rrb- and was the party 's presidential candidate in the 1996 sierra leone presidential election . he was elected president of sierra leone in the 1996 election with 59 % of the vote , defeating his closest rival john karefa-smart of the united national people 's party -lrb- unpp -rrb- who had 40 % in the runoff vote and conceded defeat . international observers declared the election free and fair . in his inauguration speech in freetown , kabbah promised to end the civil war , which he indeed achieved later in his presidency . kabbah was born in pendembu , kailahun district in eastern sierra leone , though he was largely raised in the capital freetown . an ethnic mandingo , kabbah was sierra leone 's first muslim head of state . most of kabbah 's time in office was influenced by the civil war with the revolutionary united front , led by foday sankoh , which led to him being temporarily ousted by the military armed forces revolutionary council from may 1997 to march 1998 . he was soon returned to power after military intervention by the economic community of west african states -lrb- ecowas -rrb- , led by nigeria . another phase of the civil war led to united nations and british involvement in the country in 2000 . as president , kabbah opened direct negotiations with the ruf rebels in order to end the civil war . he signed several peace accords with the rebel leader foday sankoh , including the 1999 lome peace accord , in which the rebels , for the first time , agreed to a temporary cease fire with the sierra leone government . when the cease fire agreement with the...
- party is sierra leone people 's party -lrb- slpp -rrb-- predecessor is julius maada bio -lrb- military junta -rrb- salia jusu-sheriff- birth date is 16 february 1932- profession is economist , attorney- order is 3rd president of sierra leone- vicepresident is solomon berewa- death date is 13 march 2014- spouse is patricia kabbah -lrb- deceased -rrb-- office is leader slpp -rrb- of the sierra leone people 's party -lrb-- term end is september 17 , 2007 2005- name is ahmad tejan kabbah- death place is freetown , sierra leone- birth place is pendembu , kailahun district , sierra leone- successor is ernest bai koroma solomon berewa- ethnicity is mandingo- nationality is sierra leonean- alma mater is aberystwyth university -lrb- aberystwyth , wales -rrb-- children is five children :- term start is march 29 , 1996 1996- image is ahmed tejan kabbah.jpg- religion is islam