The siege dragged on Change_event_time , however , and during his year-long absence from Spain , Alfonso the Battler lost Earnings_and_losses Castrojeriz and the other places he held Defending in Castile west of the Sierra de la Demanda to Alfonso VII .

The membership application of Sierra Leone was also accepted Agree_or_refuse_to_act and became Becoming effective upon its independence on 27 April .

The Sierra Leone Civil War ( 1991–2002 ) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began Process_start on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) , with support Supporting from the special forces of Charles Taylor ’ s National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Change_of_leadership the Joseph Momoh government .

The Sierra Leone Civil War ( 1991–2002 ) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began Process_start on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) , with support Supporting from the special forces of Charles Taylor ’ s National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Change_of_leadership the Joseph Momoh government .

The Sierra Leone Civil War ( 1991–2002 ) was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began Process_start on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) , with support Supporting from the special forces of Charles Taylor ’ s National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , intervened in Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Change_of_leadership the Joseph Momoh government .

During the first year of the war , the RUF took Conquering control of large swathes of territory in eastern and southern Sierra Leone , which were rich in alluvial diamonds .

By the end Process_end of 1993 , the Sierra Leone Army ( SLA ) had succeeded in pushing Motion the RUF rebels back to the Liberian border , but the RUF recovered Recovering and fighting continued .

Sierra Leone installed Change_of_leadership an elected Choosing civilian government in March 1996 , and the retreating Escaping RUF signed Sign_agreement the Abidjan Peace Accord .

Lome gave Giving Foday Sankoh , the commander of the RUF , the vice presidency and control Control of Sierra Leone 's diamond mines in return for a cessation of the fighting Hostile_encounter and the deployment Arranging of a UN peacekeeping force to monitor Scrutiny the disarmament process .

The region is physically diverse , featuring a number of highland areas , including the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and the Montañas Centrales ( Central Highlands ) , a southern littoral plain known as Soconusco and a central depression formed Coming_to_be by the drainage of the Grijalva River .

Weakening Cause_change_of_strength as it turned Motion to the northeast , the hurricane Catastrophe made landfall near San Blas , Nayarit as a Category 4 hurricane Catastrophe , with sustained winds of 140 mph ( 220 km/h ) , before dissipating Dispersal on October 26 over the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains .

The discovery Know sparked Causation the California Gold Rush area to expand Expansion from the Sierra Nevada into Northeastern California .

After causing Causation heavy rains and killing Killing four individuals in Sonora , the storm dissipated Dispersal over the Sierra Madre Occidental and its remnants went on to cause Causation flooding in New Mexico and Texas .

Barbara then moved Motion across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and dissipated Dispersal within the mountainous terrain of Sierra Madre de Chiapas on May 30 .

, a cholera Catastrophe outbreak Catastrophe in Sierra Leone had caused Causation the deaths Death of 392 people .

Abdulai Bayraytay , the spokesman of the Sierra Leonean government , stated Statement that as of 1 October 2012 there were no new reported Reporting cases Death of cholera Catastrophe .

The Western States Endurance Run , known commonly as the Western States 100 , is a 100-mile ( 161 km ) ultramarathon that takes place on California 's Sierra Nevada Mountains trails each year on the last full weekend of June .

The 2010 Baja California earthquake ( also known as 2010 Easter earthquake Catastrophe , 2010 Sierra El Mayor earthquake Catastrophe , or 2010 El Mayor – Cucapah earthquake Catastrophe ) occurred Coming_to_be on April 4 ( Easter Sunday ) with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII ( `` Very strong '' ) .

By 1820 , the few rebel groups survived most notably in the Sierra Madre del Sur and Veracruz .

The storm Catastrophe continued Motion inland , passing Motion_directional directly over Ciudad Obregón before dissipating Dispersal south-southeast of Sierra Vista , Arizona .