{"id":6163,"date":"2014-03-14T10:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T10:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=6163"},"modified":"2014-03-14T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T10:02:12","slug":"sierra-leones-war-leader-tejan-kabbah-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=6163","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone&#8217;s war leader Tejan Kabbah dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6164\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Zimbabwe-Obit-Kabbah.JPEG-07354.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6164\" alt=\"Zimbabwe Obit Kabbah.JPEG-07354\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Zimbabwe-Obit-Kabbah.JPEG-07354-300x239.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Zimbabwe-Obit-Kabbah.JPEG-07354-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Zimbabwe-Obit-Kabbah.JPEG-07354.jpg 506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ahmad Tejan Kabbah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sierra Leone&#8217;s ex-president and war-time leader Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has died at the age of 82 after a long illness.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kabbah&#8217;s then-deputy, Solomon Berewa, and a relative confirmed his death, Sierra Leonean journalist Umaru Fofana told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kabbah was praised for his leadership during Sierra&#8217;s Leone&#8217;s decade-long civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict officially ended in 2002 after foreign forces intervened to help defeat rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kabbah&#8217;s death has not yet been officially announced, Mr Fofana told BBC Focus on Africa. However, a distraught relative told him that Mr Kabbah had died, Mr Fofana says..<\/p>\n<p>Mr Berewa had gone to Mr Kabbah&#8217;s home in the capital, Freetown, after learning of the ex-president&#8217;s death, he adds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credit: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone&#8217;s ex-president and war-time leader Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has died at the age of 82 after a long illness. Mr Kabbah&#8217;s then-deputy, Solomon Berewa, and a relative confirmed his death, Sierra Leonean journalist Umaru Fofana told the BBC. Mr Kabbah was praised for his leadership during Sierra&#8217;s Leone&#8217;s decade-long civil war. The conflict officially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-6163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}