Joseph Saidu Momoh
Joseph Momoh (born the January 26th 1937 with Binkolo, deceased the August 2nd 2003 in Guinea) was president of the Sierra Leone, of November 1985 with the April 29th 1992.
Biography
Before its access to the presidency
It is indicated commander-in-chief of the armies by Siaka Stevens, in 1971.
President
After the resignation of Siaka Stevens, it takes the changing in November 1985. Accommodated cordially by the population, he is elected president of the Sierra Leone, without any opposition, in January 1986.
Not being able to quickly improve the economy of the country and to fight the unemployment, which is very important in the young people, the population starts to be turned over against him. It resists an coup attempt of state in March 1987.
He issues a economic state of emergency in November, drastic measures of austerities are taken.
The increasingly dissatisfied population is likely to destabilize the country, different the current which is formed within the government do not arrange anything. It tries to calm the spirits by announcing a return to a mode multi-parties, which had been removed by Siaka Stevens in 1971, as well as the organization of general elections in 1992.
The March 23rd 1991, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) attacks two villages in the east of the country, it is the beginning of the Civil war of Sierra Leone.
From there, the pressure which it is obliged to maintain on the RUF created of the tensions within the army, it does not approve its policy. And the April 29th, it is reversed by Valentine Strasser, a young captain of the army, old of only 26 years. It is then obliged to leave the Sierra Leone for Guinea.
After its inversion
The November 5th 1998, it is condemned to ten years of prison for collaboration with the junta of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC), which had seized the power the May 25th 1997.
It spends several months in Prison, it is then bleached charges of treason and is amnestied in 1999.
He dies the August 2nd 2003, of the continuations of a long illness.
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