Sierra Leonean Americans
Overview
Sierra Leone is located on what was once called the "Rice Coast" of West Africa. Its 27,699 square miles are bordered by the republics of Guinea to the ...
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Sierra Leone
Republic of Sierra Leone
CAPITAL: Freetown
FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of green, white, and blue horizontal stripes.
ANTHEM: Begins "High we exalt thee, realm of the free...
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Sierra Leone: Lasting Peace or a Cruel Mirage ?
The Conflict
In January 2002 after a decade of civil war, peace was proclaimed in Sierra Leone and tens of thousands of soldiers disarmed as the country...
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Sierra Leone
Located on the west coast of Africa and bordered by Guinea to the northeast, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean on the southwest, Sierra Leone is roughly the size of South C...
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Sierra Leone
POPULATION 5,614,743MUSLIM 60 percentAFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION 30 percentCHRISTIAN 10 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Sierra Leone is a small West African co...
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In many places in Africa and Europe land mines are a huge threat. This however is not the case for Sierra Leone. Although Sierra Leone has only recently ended a civil war that had been raging on fo...
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Area: 71,740 sq km (27,699 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 5,124,000Capital:
Freetown
Head of state and government:
President
Ahmad Tejan
Kabbah
Sierra Leone
welcomed a relatively crisis-free ...
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Sierra Leone's president grounded all commercial helicopters and suspended the country's transport minister Tuesday following a weekend crash that killed 22 people, officials said.The helicopter wa...
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Sierra Leone held its first presidential elections Saturday since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew two years ago, a historic poll that many hope will show this country can transfer power peacefully after...
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The Security Council voted unanimously Friday to extend the mandate of the U.N. peacebuilding mission in Sierra Leone, a country outgoing Secretary-General Kofi Annan called a success story.A U.N. ...
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The Hague (dpa) - The Special Court for Sierra Leone is an
independent tribunal tasked with bringing to justice those who bear
the greatest responsibility for atrocities dur...
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Isaiah Washington, who traced his ancestral roots to Sierra Leone through DNA testing, has donated $25,000 to a computer animation project that aims to detail the Atlantic slave trade.The "Grey's A...
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Sam Hinga Norman, a former government minister on trial for allegedly overseeing a militia accused of torturing and mutilating civilians during Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, died Thursday a...
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Jan 7 (Reuters) - Prosecutors will call their first
witnesses to the stand on Monday in the delayed trial of former
Liberian President Charles Taylor, charged with orchestrating
atrocities in Sier...
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Nairobi/Freetown, Sierra Leone (dpa) - Sierra Leone was set to
vote later Saturday in presidential and parliamentary elections that
are viewed as a milestone in the war-wear...
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Ballot-counting was under way Sunday in Sierra Leone's first presidential election since U.N. peacekeepers withdrew two years ago _ a vote seen as a test of the country's transition to democratic r...
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Sierra Leonean Americans
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Sierra Leone: Lasting Peace or a Cruel Mirage
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United Nations' Position on Sierra Leone and Their Landmines
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