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Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The story of UNAMSIL, by Funmi Olonisakin

At its full strength, UNAMSIL, the United Nations military mission in Sierra Leone, was the largest peacekeeping operation in the world. It was launched in April 2000 as a replacement for a Nigerian-dominated regional peacekeeping force. UNAMSIL's role was to protect a tenuous peace agreed at Lomé in mid-1999. The warring parties – the rebel Revolutionary United Front, mutinous army elements, and the government's large civil auxiliary militia, armed and trained by South African (and later British) private security companies – were by no means committed to peace. Undermanned, ill-prepared and b…