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 Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
Other groups estimate a higher number of amputees: the chairman of Aberdeen amputee camp in Freetown states 3,000 and the Youth Ambassadors For Peace fact sheet on Sierra Leone suggests that as many as 10,000 children were deliberately maimed during the conflict.
Note: During the 10 years of civil war in Sierra Leone, many people were forced to flee from their homes more than once.
Caritas-Makeni was the CPA responsible for DDR work in the northern region of Sierra Leone, and COOPI took responsibility for the western region.
www.womenscommission.org /reports/sl/15.shtml   (4563 words)

  
 Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
Freetown's economy revolves largely around its harbor, which handles Sierra Leone's main exports.
The inhabitants revolted in 1800, but the British retook control, beginning expansionism which led to the creation of Sierra Leone.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown   (4563 words)

  
 SERSAS
Foray, Cyril, The Road to the One-Party State: The Sierra Leone Experience (Africanus Horton Memorial Lecture, University of Aberdeen, November 9, 1988).
See Cyril Foray, The Road to the One-Party State: The Sierra Leone Experience (Africanus Horton Memorial Lecture, University of Aberdeen, November 9, 1988), 59.
For example, FBC alumni James Africanus Horton and James "Holy" Johnson became two of the most outspoken advocates of African self-determination and the need to establish a West African university.
www.ecu.edu /african/sersas/Papers/ParakaDanSpring2002.htm   (14099 words)

  
 SIERLE99-04.htm
Most Nigerian soldiers, the largest component of ECOMOG, have been deployed in Sierra Leone for at least one year without respite, or visits home Some soldiers, particularly those that were deployed in Sierra Leone after previously serving in the ECOMOG forces in Liberia, have not been back to Nigeria for over two years.
Scores of executions by ECOMOG and to a lesser extent CDF and SSD forces took place on the Aberdeen Bridge in western Freetown, which during the rebel incursion was under the command of an ECOMOG captain who during this time earned the name of Captain Evil Spirit among the local population.
ECOMOG, CDF-Kamajors, and SSD police in charge of manning the many checkpoints in Freetown were accused of using extreme brutality against the civilian population.
www.hrw.org /reports/1999/sierra/SIERLE99-04.htm   (5664 words)

  
 Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freetown, population 1,070,200 ( 2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
Also in Freetown are assorted beaches and markets, and the Sierra Leone Museum featuring the Ruiter Stone, nomoli and masks.
Freetown's suburbs stretch along the coast, forming a working class East End of Wellington, Kissy, Cline Town, Fourah Bay, Kossa Town and Foulah Town and a bourgeois West End of Congo Town, Murray Town, Wilberforce and Aberdeen.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown%2C_Sierra_Leone   (5664 words)

  
 Department of Geography : 50 year retrospective - Durham University
The Durham Colleges were one division of the federal University of Durham, which also comprised the much larger Kings College in Newcastle and two smaller affiliated colleges overseas: Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone (where in the early 1960s I spent two happy years as a professor on secondment) and Codrington College in Barbados.
I was W.B.F's first appointment, having been one of his undergraduate students in Aberdeen five years previously who had gone on to the Sorbonne to undertake doctoral research in Tunisia, followed by military service as an Education Officer in the R.A.F., and an assistant lectureship at Aberdeen.
The largest colleges, University and Hatfield, had only 259 and 217 students respectively, and colleges and societies were closer knit and all single sex, with evening exeats being given to encourage segregation of the sexes.
www.dur.ac.uk /geography/alumni/50year   (5664 words)

  
 Sierra Leone
Aberdeen is the safest area in Freetown due to its strategic position and that is also why the UN Unamsil HQ is based there.
If you visit Freetown we can advice you to stay in the Aberdeen area at the cape where several hotels are located with some fine restaurant and Lumley Beach around the corner.
The mountains behind Freetown rise to a maximum height of over 900 metres above sea level and the landscape, which includes high peaks and ridges separated by deep, picturesque valleys, is frequently spectacular.
www.africa-afrika.com /sierra.html   (5664 words)

  
 Freetown - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Freetown
The city is the site of the University of Sierra Leone and is twinned with Kingston upon Hull in England.
Freetown's suburbs stretch along the coast, forming a working class East End of Wellington, Kissy, Cline Town, Fourah Bay, Kossa Town and Foulah Town and a bourgeois West End of Congo Town, Murray Town, Wilberforce and Aberdeen.
It was captured by ECOWAS troops seeking to restore President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah in 1998, and later it was unsuccessfully attacked by rebels of the Revolutionary United Front.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Freetown.html   (423 words)

  
 Freetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Freetown, population 1,070,200 (2004), is the largest city and capital of Sierra Leone, lying on the Freetown Peninsula on the Atlantic coast.
Freetown's suburbs stretch along the coast, forming a working class East End of Wellington, Kissy, Cline Town, Fourah Bay, Kossa Town and Foulah Town and a bourgeois West End of Congo Town, Murray Town, Wilberforce and Aberdeen.
In 1792, Freetown was founded by former slaves from Nova Scotia, and survived being pillaged by the French in 1794.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Freetown   (439 words)

  
 Photographs of Freetown - Sierra Leone Web
Take a photographic tour of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, by clicking on the arrow at right
Overlooking Aberdeen, young Freetown residents, child street band.
Photos of central Freetown, pampam boats, and burned out remains of Freetown Town Council.
www.sierra-leone.org /freetowntour.html   (155 words)

  
 List of football teams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main article: List of football clubs in Sierra Leone
Aberdeen F.C. Celtic F.C. Dundee F.C. Dundee United F.C. Dunfermline Athletic F.C. Heart of Midlothian F.C. Hibernian F.C. Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. Kilmarnock F.C. Livingston F.C. Motherwell F.C. Rangers F.C. edit ]
Main article: List of football clubs in Scotland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_football_teams   (155 words)

  
 List of football teams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main article: List of football clubs in Sierra Leone
Aberdeen F.C. Celtic F.C. Dundee F.C. Dundee United F.C. Dunfermline Athletic F.C. Heart of Midlothian F.C. Hibernian F.C. Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. Kilmarnock F.C. Livingston F.C. Motherwell F.C. Rangers F.C. edit ]
Main article: List of football clubs in Scotland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_football_teams   (155 words)

  
 List of football teams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main article: List of football clubs in Sierra Leone
Aberdeen F.C. Celtic F.C. Dundee F.C. Dundee United F.C. Dunfermline Athletic F.C. Heart of Midlothian F.C. Hibernian F.C. Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. Kilmarnock F.C. Livingston F.C. Motherwell F.C. Rangers F.C. edit ]
Main article: List of football clubs in Scotland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_football_teams   (155 words)

  
 List of football teams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Main article: List of football clubs in Sierra Leone
Aberdeen F.C. Celtic F.C. Dundee F.C. Dundee United F.C. Dunfermline Athletic F.C. Heart of Midlothian F.C. Hibernian F.C. Inverness Caledonian Thistle F.C. Kilmarnock F.C. Livingston F.C. Motherwell F.C. Rangers F.C. edit ]
Main article: List of football clubs in Scotland
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_football_teams   (155 words)

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