Operation Basilica
UK personnel remain in Sierra Leone and in the Naval ships in the area to provide training to the Sierra Leone government troops and as military observers to UNAMSIL.
| The Lomé Agreement of July 1999 between the Sierra Leone government, led by President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, and the Revolutionary United Front, led by Foday Sankoh, attempted to end an eight-year civil war which killed an estimated 50,000 people and displaced half of the country's population. The United Nations was mandated to oversee the disarmament of the RUF and some 11,000 peacekeepers were allocated to assist UNAMSIL (the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone), of whom about 8,000 were present in the country. |  |
