Valentine Esegragbo Melvine Strasser was born on 26 April 1967 and is a former Sierra Leonean military officer who served as head of state of Sierra Leone from 1992 to 1996.
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Valentine Strasser became the world's youngest head of state in 1992, seizing power three days after his 25th birthday.
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Valentine Strasser enlisted in the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces at age eighteen, immediately after graduating from secondary school.
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Valentine Strasser then established the National Provisional Ruling Council military junta.
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Valentine Esegragbo Melvin Strasser was born on 26 April 1967 in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to parents from the Creole ethnic group.
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At the time of Valentine Strasser's birth, Sir Albert Margai was the Prime Minister of Sierra Leone when the country was a parliamentary government.
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Valentine Strasser grew up in the neighbourhood of Allen Town, in the extreme East End of Freetown.
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Valentine Strasser completed his secondary education at the Sierra Leone Grammar School in Freetown and graduated in 1985 at age eighteen.
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Valentine Strasser was posted to a military barracks in Daru, Kailahun District in Eastern Sierra Leone.
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Valentine Strasser became the youngest Head of State in the world at just twenty five years old.
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In January 1996, after nearly four years in power, Valentine Strasser was ousted in another military coup, but this time it was his own NPRC members who were not satisfied with his handling of the peace process.
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Valentine Strasser eventually returned to Sierra Leone, where he lived in poverty on a small pension in Grafton, east of Freetown, and worked at the ICT Institute providing computer skills for youths.
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Valentine Strasser's left leg was partially amputated due to peripheral artery disease.