United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

United Nations Mission Sierra Leone
Abbreviation	UNAMSIL
Formation	22 October 1999
Type	Peacekeeping Mission
Legal status	Completed
Head	Daudi Ngelautwa Mwakawago
Parent organization	United Nations Security Council
Website	http://web.archive.org/web/20080910195944/http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unamsil/index.html

The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) was a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2006. It was created by the United Nations Security Council in October 1999 to help with the implementation of the Lomé Peace Accord, an agreement intended to end the Sierra Leonean civil war. UNAMSIL expanded in size several times in 2000 and 2001. It concluded its mandate at the end of 2005, the Security Council having declared that its mission was complete.

The mandate was notable for authorizing UNAMSIL to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence (albeit "within its capabilities and areas of deployment") - a return to a more proactive style of UN peacekeeping.

UNAMSIL replaced a previous mission, the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL).

According to Security Council Resolution 1270 of 22 October 1999 which established the operation, UNAMSIL had the following mandate:

In February 2000 the mandate had been revised to include the following tasks:

Upon withdrawal, the remaining staff in Freetown were transferred to United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL).