Just a brief note of appreciation to Vice President Johnson and Pakistani camel driver Bashir Ahmad for providing a first-class example of `` people to people '' good will.

Chadian president Idriss Déby accuses Sudanese President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir of trying to " destabilize our country, to drive our people into misery, to create disorder and export the war from Darfur to Chad.

* 1932 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf send more troops against the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan | United Front of Ahmad Shah Massoud than the Afghan Taliban.

* 1997 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

Rare ceasefires, usually negotiated by representatives of the Islamic State's newly appointed Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Massoud, President Sibghatullah Mojaddedi and later President Burhanuddin Rabbani ( the interim government ), or officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ), commonly collapsed within days.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf – then as Chief of Army Staff – was responsible for sending thousands of Pakistanis to fight alongside the Taliban and Bin Laden against the forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

Ahmad bin Yahya's reign was marked by growing econimic and political reforms, renewed friction with the United Kingdom over the British presence in the south, and growing pressures to support the Arab nationalist objectives of Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser.

** A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koromah.

** Yemen Arab Republic President Ahmad al-Ghashmi is killed.

** Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of Sierra Leone

It was captured by ECOWAS troops seeking to restore President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in 1998, and later it was unsuccessfully attacked by rebels of the Revolutionary United Front.

With the assistance of the international community, Sierra Leone President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Revolutionary United Front leader Foday Sankoh signed the Peace Accord on July 7, 1999.

CAIR was founded in June 1994 by three former officers of the Islamic Association of Palestine ( IAP )— Omar Ahmad ( IAP President ; became CAIR President ), Nihad Awad ( IAP PR Director ; became CAIR Secretary & Treasurer ), and Rafeeq Jaber ( IAP Chicago Chapter President ; became CAIR Vice President ).

The list of witnesses they requested included Saeed Mortazavi, the general prosecutor of Tehran Mohsen Armin, reformist member of the previous parliament Hossein Ansari-Rad, Jamileh Kadivar, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, Minister of Intelligence Ali Younesi, the Vice President of Legal Affairs Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjedjamei, the five judges who were present during Kazemi's interrogation, a few employees of the Evin prison, the president of the Baghiyyatollah hospital, and all of the medical staff who had signed her file.

* Iranian President Mohammad Khatami condemned the assassination of Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmad Shah Masood.

In 2006 Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Minaret Vice President Aly R. Abuzaakouk signed a letter in “ defense of free speech ” condemning “ any intimidation or threats of violence directed against any individual or group exercising the rights of freedom of religion and speech ; even when that speech may be perceived as hurtful or reprehensible .” They expressed concern about threats “ made against individual writers, cartoonists, and others by a minority of Muslims ” and called on all Muslims to “ refrain from violence .”

Ahmad Rugasan Daud, Sangguniang Kabataan Basilan Federation President

After a coup by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ) in 1997, the RUF and AFRC created a joint junta to control the country before being evicted from the capital by the invasion of a Nigerian-led West African force that reinstated the rule of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

It was again used in 1996 by President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari against his own party leader Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in November 1996.

Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah ( born February 16, 1932 ) served as President of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007.

On March 29, 1996, Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was sworn in as President of Sierra Leone.

It was also alleged that the President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was to have been killed.

* Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone from 1996 – 2007

He met and held talks with the former Sierra Leonean President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, and former President Charles Taylor of Liberia, President Lansana Conte of Guinea, and other senior officials and diplomatic representatives including Revolutionary United Front leader Foday Sankoh.

* Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone

In 1996 he relinquished power in favour of democratic elections, and was replaced on March 29, 1996 by President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

The AFRC was formed by Major Johnny Paul Koroma of the Sierra Leonean military in 1997, who used it to carry out a coup d ' etat against the government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

The British intervened to save the failing UN mission and the weak government of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah.

They were originally employed by local chiefs, but under the leadership of Hinga Norman were used by President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in 1996 to replace mercenaries ( Executive Outcomes and Sandline International, both of whom helped train the force ) as the security force of the government.

They were originally employed by local chiefs, but under the leadership of Samuel Hinga Norman was used by President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in 1996 to replace mercenaries ( Executive Outcomes which became Sandline International, helped train the force ) as the security force of the government.

President Kabbah took power with a great promise of ending the civil war.

President Kabbah open dialogue with the RUF and invited RUF leader Foday Sankoh for peace negotiation.

On May 25, 1997, a group of seventeen soldiers in the Sierra Leone army led by Corporal Tamba Gborie and loyal to the detained Major General Johnny Paul Koroma launched a military coup which sent President Kabbah into exile in Guinea and they established the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council ( AFRC ).

The Kamajors, a group of traditional fighters mostly from the Mende ethnic group under the command of deputy Defence Minister Samuel Hinga Norman, remained loyal to President Kabbah and defended the Southern part Sierra Leone from the soldiers.

President Kabbah named veteran attorney Solomon Berewa as Attorney general and Sama Banya as foreign minister.

President Kabbah was reelected, and his Sierra Leone People's Party won a majority of the parliamentary seats.

It was involved in conflicts in Papua New Guinea in 1997 ( having a contract with the government under the then Prime Minister Julius Chan ) causing the Sandline affair, in 1998 in Sierra Leone ( having a contract with ousted President Kabbah ) and in Liberia in 2003 ( in a rebel attempt to evict the then-president Charles Taylor near the end of the civil war ).

Once again, in pursuit of peace, President Kabbah signed the Lomé Peace Accord with the RUF rebel leader Foday Sankoh on 7 July 1999.

The rebels however continued their attempt to dethrone Kabbah's government, despite signing numerous peace accords with President Kabbah.

President Kabbah was very grateful to the British Prime Minister, calling his intervention " timely " and one that " Sierra Leonean people will never forget ".

President Kabbah, as Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone in Freetown holds an honorary doctor of laws degree of the University.