Popular civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson has passed away in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 84. Reverend Jackson was not just a Baptist minister and civil rights leader, but he also played a significant role in helping Sierra Leone achieve peace.
Rev. Jackson accompanied the then Sierra Leone President, Ahmed Tejan Kabba, to Lome, Togo, for the Lomé Peace Accord as the United States Presidential Special Envoy for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa. Reverend Jesse Jackson witnessed the signing ceremony of the Lomé Peace Accord on the 18th of May 1999.
The late Rev. Jackson visited Sierra Leone at least twice in his capacity as the US Presidential Special Envoy to West Africa in 1998 and in May 2000. In one of his interviews, Reverend Jesse Jackson compared the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) to the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, a comment for which he faced criticism.
