eX-Sierra Leone leader in Ghana

Former Sierra Leonean head of state Lt. Col. (rtd) Johnny Paul Koroma has arrived in Accra to chair a preparatory committee meeting for an international conference on Peace in Africa scheduled for next March.

Koroma will chair the Technical Preparatory Committee for the conference to be hosted by the Africa Regional Office of the World Federation of UN Missions on the theme: "The UN and the consolidation of the peace process in Africa - The role of UN associations and civil society."

A statement issued by the World Federation of UN Associations said the conference is a follow-up event of a similar preparatory meeting held in Geneva last September.

The statement said Col. Koroma would pay courtesy calls on some top government officials and NGOs. He is currently the Chairman of the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace (CCP) in Sierra Leone.

The CCP is an umbrella commission established by the Lome Agreement of July 1999 between the Government and Revolutionary United Front to oversee the implementation of the agreement and the welfare of the victims of the 10-year war.