<P> In January 1999, world leaders intervened diplomatically to promote negotiations between the RUF and the government . The Lome Peace Accord, signed on 27 March 1999, was the result . Lome gave Foday Sankoh, the commander of the RUF, the vice presidency and control of Sierra Leone's diamond mines in return for a cessation of the fighting and the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force to monitor the disarmament process . RUF compliance with the disarmament process was inconsistent and sluggish, and by May 2000, the rebels were advancing again upon Freetown . As the UN mission began to fail the United Kingdom declared its intention to intervene in the former colony and Commonwealth member in an attempt to support the weak government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah . With help from a renewed UN mandate and Guinean air support, the British Operation Palliser finally defeated the RUF, taking control of Freetown . On 18 January 2002, President Kabbah declared the Sierra Leone Civil War over . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Sierra Leone Civil War </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Personalities </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Ahmad Kabbah </Li> <Li> Johnny Paul Koroma </Li> <Li> Foday Sankoh </Li> <Li> Valentine Strasser </Li> <Li> Charles Taylor </Li> <Li> Solomon Musa </Li> <Li> Hinga Norman </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Armed forces </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> ECOMOG </Li> <Li> Executive Outcomes </Li> <Li> Kamajors </Li> <Li> RUF </Li> <Li> Sandline International </Li> <Li> SLA </Li> <Li> West Side Boys </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Attempts at peace </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Abidjan Peace Accord </Li> <Li> Lomé Peace Accord </Li> <Li> UNAMSIL </Li> <Li> British intervention </Li> <Li> SCSL </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Political groups </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> AFRC </Li> <Li> APC </Li> <Li> NPRC </Li> <Li> SLPP </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Ethnic groups </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Krio </Li> <Li> Limba </Li> <Li> Mende </Li> <Li> Temne </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> See also </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Blood diamond </Li> <Li> Freetown </Li> <Li> Liberian Civil War </Li> <Li> Mano River </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Sierra Leone Civil War </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Personalities </Th> </Tr>

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