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  Sierra Leone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
Much of Sierra Leone's coastline consists of mangrove swamps, with the exception of the peninsula on which the capital city Freetown is located.
Sierra Leone is the worst nation in the world for childbirth, having the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), or risk of maternal death, of any country.
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 Profile - Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, independent nation in western Africa, bounded on the north and east by Guinea, on the southeast by Liberia, and on the southwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Sierra Leone has a tropical climate; the mean temperature in Freetown is about 27° C (about 80° F) in January and 26° C (78° F) in July.
Sierra Leone was declared a republic on April 19, 1971, and Stevens was sworn in as executive president on April 21.
www.inadev.org /profile_-_sierra_leone.htm   (2169 words)

  
 Sierra Leone : International Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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Sierra Leone West Africa - Sierra Leone West Africa Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau by Adekeye Adebajo, Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, sierra leone west africa and Guinea-Bissau Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.
Sierra Leonean leone - The leone is the currency of Sierra Leone, a country on the West African coast.
www.globalforum2001.com /177-Sierra-Leone.html   (2086 words)

  
 Meteoroloo.com :: Sierra Leone - diamonds from sierra leone
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www.meteoroloo.com /Met-countries-s-z/Sierra-Leone.html   (1440 words)

  
 Sierra Leone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This UN's credibility crisis over Sierra Leone is a 21st century phenomenon, while the UN debacle over Somalia and the UN abandonment of Rwanda in the face of genocide could be said to be the 20th century phenomenon.
The protracted war in Sierra Leone and the recent UN disaster arose from the fact that the Sierra Leone crisis was a victim of certain myths and misconceptions from the beginning.
This is an unresolved issue in the myth surrounding the Sierra Leone crisis and the UN is a victim of this myth.
www.nigerdeltacongress.com /sarticles/sierra_leone.htm   (6962 words)

  
 Sierra Leone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1808, Sierra Leone became a British Crown Colony, which it remained until halfway through the twentieth century, when the process of de-colonization was commenced.
Sierra Leone is divided into three provinces and one area, subdivided in turn into fourteen districts.
Sierra Leone contains some of the last remnants of a highly biodiverse forest which once stretched across the whole of West Africa, featuring plant and animal species ranging from rare orchids to animals such as the vulnerable pygmy hippopotamus (Hexaprotodon liberiensis) and endangered red colobus monkey (Procolobus badius).
www.a013.com /wiki/Sierra_Leone   (1975 words)

  
 Sierra Leone
The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
The rest of Sierra Leone is mostly plateau (about 300 m above sea level) covered by forests, with mountains in the east of the country (highest point Loma Mansa, 1,948 m).
Sierra Leone is the worst nation for childbirth in the world, having the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio, or risk of maternal death, of any country.
creekin.net /n165-sierra-leone.html   (866 words)

  
 Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Background on Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is located in Western Africa and Borders with Liberia (South West and South East) and Guinea (North-West and North East).
In 1896 the Colony and protectorate of Sierra Leone was established to limit French colonial ambitions in the region.
In 2000 the government of Sierra Leone passed the Anti-Corruption Act to combat corruption affecting the functioning of the various branches of the government.
www.mnadvocates.org /printview/Background_on_Sierra_Leone.html   (2435 words)

  
 Sierra Leone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The literal meaning is "Lionesse Mountain." During the 1700s Sierra Leone was an important centre of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The capital Freetown was founded in 1792 by the Sierra Leone Company as a home for Black Britons who had fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War.
Statistics for Islam in Sierra Leone estimate a Muslim population of 3,610,585, representing around 60 percent of the country's total population.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Sierra_Leone   (1737 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Africa: Sierra Leone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In 2001, Sierra Leone ratified the Mine Ban Treaty, the Convention against Torture, and the optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography.
A Sierra Leonean government proposal that the temporal jurisdiction of the court be extended back to 1991, the commencement of the war, was not supported.
U.K. assistance to Sierra Leone since April 2001 was estimated to be 84.5 million pounds sterling, including funding for demobilization and reintegration programs, training and equipment for the army and police, human rights and civil society groups, rehabilitation of the legal system, humanitarian aid, and helping to restore the local Paramount Chiefs.
www.hrw.org /wr2k2/africa10.html   (3162 words)

  
 Sierra Leone: Profiles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A Temne from Tonkolili District in northern Sierra Leone, Sankoh was the son of a farmer.
A thirty-four-year-old, Sandhurst-trained, major in the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces, Koroma was being held in prison in Freetown at the time of the coup for his alleged part in a previous coup plot.
Until the death of Nigeria's military ruler Abacha in June 1998, UK backing of the Kabbah government was complicated by the tough international stance the UK had taken against the Nigerian regime and the fact that a succession of Nigerian military leaders had been the main defenders of the Sierra Leone government.
www.c-r.org /our-work/accord/sierra-leone/profiles.php   (4998 words)

  
 ECOWAS Summit Final Communique - 11 April 2001 - Sierra Leone Web
Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS met in an extraordinary sesssion in Abuja on 11 April 2001 under the chairmanship of His Excellency Alpha Oumar Konare, current Chairman of the Authority, President of the Republic of Mali, to discuss the security situation in West Africa.
Heads of State and Government also appealed to the United Nations Security Council to authorise and assist the deployment of ECOMOG Forces along the borders in line with the mandate given to the ECOWAS Authority.
Heads of State and Government issued an appeal to the Liberian government to rescind its decision to expel the Ambassadors of Guinea and Sierra Leone accredited to Liberia.
www.sierra-leone.org /ecowas041101.html   (1344 words)

  
 Letter on Violations of the Lome Peace Accord - 24 February 2000 - Sierra Leone Web
Sierra Leonean civilians stay in large numbers in these areas, and it is quite unfair for them to be castigated for political and tribal reasons.
All efforts are openly made by the Government of Sierra Leone to frustrate the commencement and positive operation of the Commission for the Management of Strategic Resources, National Reconstruction and Development.
President Kabbah and the SLPP Government of Sierra Leone are openly trying to destroy the Lome Peace Agreement as they did with the Abidjan Peace Accord under the silence of the moral guarantors and International Supporters.
www.sierra-leone.org /rufp022400.html   (2398 words)

  
 Sierra Leone’s diamond wars, by Andrés Perez
The UN Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (Unamsil) - the largest UN peace-keeping mission in the world with its 9,000 men - was supposed to bring an end to a ghastly, 10-year-long civil war and send a message of hope to the whole of Africa, highlighting the next mission to Congo Kinshasa (1).
By refusing to declare an embargo on diamonds from Sierra Leone, or indeed the economic exclusion zone that many experts have been calling for, the Security Council and UN Secretary General (2) have left the field wide open for a mafia-like conflict in which their soldiers have become pawns in the game.
Monrovia, his base, is where a large proportion of the smuggled Sierra Leone diamonds are traded, channelling some $200m a year "linked with the markets in arms, drugs and money-laundering in Africa" and elsewhere (4).
mondediplo.com /2000/06/02sierraleone   (1865 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Sierra Leone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The written history of Sierra Leone began in 1462, when the Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra first landed and named the country "Lion Mountains".
The rest of Sierra Leone is mostly plateau (about 300 m above sea level) covered by forests, with mountains in the northeast of the country (highest point Loma Mansa, 1,948 m).
There are about 14 different tribes living in Sierra Leone, which together make up about 99% of the population.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/sierra_leone   (1734 words)

  
 Sierra Leone: President: President Kabbah at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, was among some fifty-two Heads of State and Government who attended this year's CHOGM in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The meeting was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and host President Olusegun Obasanjo had his country Nigeria entertain their guests to some of the most lavish and spectacular performances and hospitality throughout the meeting.
On Thursday 4 December 2003 at 10.00 am Sierra Leone's President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, took the rostrum to make his keynote address on "combating corruption".
www.statehouse-sl.org /pres-com-meet.html   (265 words)

  
 Sierra Leone: News & Information: President: State House: Ahmad Tejan Kabbah:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As a further demonstration of the friendly ties between China and Sierra Leone, the Chinese Government donated 20 million RMB, the equivalent of 2.5 million dollars to Sierra Leone for projects to be agreed upon by both countries.
This year's celebration organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with FAO was held in Kono, Eastern Sierra Leone; where farmers from all regions of the country converged to exhibit their farm products as manifestation of how much food is produced in the country, qualitatively and quantitatively.
As a boost to the Sierra Leone Government's post-war reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts the Government of Libya through the Leader of the Great Jamahiriya, Col. Muammar Gadaffi has donated equipment and buses to the Government of Sierra Leone.
www.statehouse-sl.org   (1774 words)

  
 Sierra Leone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HE Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah became President of Sierra Leone in March 1996 after elections ended a period of military rule.
Mr Tejan Kabbah led the Sierra Leone People's Party to victory in a run-off poll witnessed by Commonwealth observers when a first-round election, also witnessed by Commonwealth observers, failed to give Mr Tejan Kabbah or his electoral opponents 55 per cent of the vote.
In May 1997, he was forced to flee the country when soldiers led by Major Johnny Paul Koroma took over the government.
www.chogm99.org /who/countries/sierrabio.htm   (216 words)

  
 Politics of Sierra Leone:
A critical press continues to operate, although the government has intervened for alleged inaccurate reporting, using the 1965 Public Order Act which criminalizes libel.
The House of Representatives has 124 members, 112 members elected for a four year term through proportional representation in 14 multi-seat constituencies with a constituency treshhold of 12.5 % and 12 Paramount chiefs.
An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Sierra Leone.
straightworldbank.com /wiki/Politics_of_Sierra_Leone   (548 words)

  
 Sierra Leone - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Sierra Leone - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Includes Heads of State, Prime Ministers, Foreign, Trade and Aid Ministers.
The Australian High Commission in Ghana is responsible for Sierra leone
www.dfat.gov.au /geo/sierra_leone/index.html   (90 words)

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