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Sierra Leone's wartime president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah dies

Freetown, Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone's former president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, widely credited for ending an 11-year civil war, died on Thursday at the age of 82 after a long illness.

President Ernest Bai Koroma's government said in a statement that Kabbah's death was an "irreparable loss" to the West African nation and it declared a week of national mourning.

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