Portal:Sierra Leone

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Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It shares its southeastern border with Liberia and is bordered by Guinea to the north. With a land area of 71,740 km² (27,699 sq mi), Sierra Leone has a tropical climate and with a variety of environments ranging from savannas to rainforests. According to the 2015 census, Sierra Leone has a population of 7,092,113, with Freetown serving as both the capital and largest city. The country is divided into five administrative regions, which are further subdivided into 16 districts.

Sierra Leone is governed as a presidential republic, with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president. Sierra Leone is a secular state with the constitution providing for the separation of state and religion and freedom of conscience, encompassing freedom of thought and religion. Muslims constitute three-quarters of the population with a significant Christian minority. Notably, religious tolerance is very high, reflecting a social norm and part of the nation's cultural identity.

Sierra Leone's current territorial configuration was established by the British Empire through two historical phases: initially, the coastal Sierra Leone Colony was founded in 1808 to resettle returning Africans following the abolition of the slave trade; subsequently, the inland Protectorate was created in 1896 in the wake of the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885. This led to the formal recognition of the territory as the Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, or British Sierra Leone. Independence from the United Kingdom was attained in 1961, with Sierra Leone transitioning into a Commonwealth realm as the Dominion of Sierra Leone under the leadership of Prime Minister Sir Milton Margai of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP).

Under prime minister Siaka Stevens of the All People's Congress (APC), the country adopted a new constitution in 1971, transforming Sierra Leone into a presidential republic with Stevens as the inaugural president. After declaring the APC the sole legal party in 1978, Stevens was succeeded by Joseph Saidu Momoh in 1985. Momoh's enactment of a new constitution in 1991 reintroduced a multi-party system. That year, a protracted civil war initiated, featuring the government and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group, leading to significant turmoil. The conflict, characterized by multiple coups d'état, persisted for 11 years. Intervention by ECOMOG forces and later the United Kingdom resulted in the defeat of the RUF in 2002, ushering in a period of relative stability and recovery efforts. The remaining two main political parties are the APC and the SLPP. (Full article...)

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Freetown is the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, educational and political centre, as it is the seat of the Government of Sierra Leone. The population of Freetown was 1,055,964 at the 2015 census.

The city's economy revolves largely around its harbour, which occupies a part of the estuary of the Sierra Leone River in one of the world's largest natural deep water harbours. (Full article...)

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Sierra Leone Civil War
Bunce Island
Media of Sierra Leone
Western Area Forest Reserve
Sierra Leone River
Ernest Bai Koroma
Bo, Sierra Leone
Mende people
Temne people
Limba people (Sierra Leone)
Sierra Leone Police
Sierra Leone Creole people
Sierra Leone National Premier League
Kenema
Religion in Sierra Leone
Koidu
LGBT rights in Sierra Leone
Special Court for Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone diamond (Kono region)
Human rights in Sierra Leone
Kono District
Makeni
Port Loko
Mining in Sierra Leone
Charles Margai
Star of Sierra Leone
United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
Tiwai Island
Gola Rainforest National Park
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
Palaver sauce
Julius Maada Bio
Sierra Leone (1961–1971)
Football in Sierra Leone
Nicholas G. J. Ballanta
Women in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars
Emmerson Bockarie
Bajah + The Dry Eye Crew
Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone
Fula people
Kandeh Yumkella
Orishatukeh Faduma
I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson
Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate
Masquerade in Mende culture
Joseph Cinqué
Art in Sierra Leone
Nyarroh
United States v. The Amistad
Koidu Holdings

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Image 1Bai Bureh, Temne leader of the Hut Tax War of 1898 against British rule (from Sierra Leone)
Image 2Bunce Island, 1805, during the period the slave factory was run by John and Alexander Anderson (from Sierra Leone)
Image 3A map of Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 4Isata Mahoi shown editing radio programmes in Talking Drum studio Freetown; she is also an actress in the Sierra Leone radio soap opera Atunda Ayenda (from Sierra Leone)
Image 5Temne leader Bai Bureh seen here in 1898 after his surrender, sitting relaxed in his traditional dress with a handkerchief in his hands, while a Sierra Leonean West African Frontier Force soldier stands guard next to him (from Sierra Leone)
Image 6The Sierra Leone Supreme Court in the capital Freetown, the highest and most powerful court in the country (from Sierra Leone)
Image 7Fragments of prehistoric pottery from Kamabai Rock Shelter (from Sierra Leone)
Image 8The distribution of major ethnic groups within Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 9A situation map of the Ebola outbreak as of 8 August 2014 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 10Odelay mask by Temne people. Brooklyn Museum. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 11African Naval ratings march past the Governor of Sierra Leone, Sir Hubert Stevenson. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 12A secondary school class in Pendembu, Kailahun District (from Sierra Leone)
Image 13A proportional representation of Sierra Leone exports, 2019 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 14British West African Campaign troops in Freetown, 1914–1916. Published caption: "British expeditionary force preparing to embark at Freetown to attack the German Cameroons, the main object of the attack being the port of Duala. Auxiliary native troops were freely used in African warfare." (from Sierra Leone)
Image 15African Naval ratings march past the Governor of Sierra Leone, Sir Hubert Stevenson. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 16Fragments of prehistoric pottery from Kamabai Rock Shelter (from Sierra Leone)
Image 17A school in Koindu destroyed during the Civil War; in total 1,270 primary schools were destroyed in the War. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 18Odelay mask by Temne people. Brooklyn Museum. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 19Houses at Sierra-Leone (May 1853, X, p. 55) (from Sierra Leone)
Image 20Sierra Leone map of Köppen climate classification (from Sierra Leone)
Image 21An APC political rally in the northern town of Kabala outside the home of supporters of the rival SLPP in 1968 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 22Sierra Leone's total population, from 1961 to 2013 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 23Moa River Bridge, Sierra Leone. Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 24Bai Bureh, Temne leader of the Hut Tax War of 1898 against British rule (from Sierra Leone)
Image 25A situation map of the Ebola outbreak as of 8 August 2014 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 26The road from Kenema to Kailahun District (from Sierra Leone)
Image 27British West African Campaign troops in Freetown, 1914–1916. Published caption: "British expeditionary force preparing to embark at Freetown to attack the German Cameroons, the main object of the attack being the port of Duala. Auxiliary native troops were freely used in African warfare." (from Sierra Leone)
Image 28Rice farming in Rolako (from Sierra Leone)
Image 29An APC political rally in the northern town of Kabala outside the home of supporters of the rival SLPP in 1968 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 30A secondary school class in Pendembu, Kailahun District (from Sierra Leone)
Image 31Historical GDP per capita development (from Sierra Leone)
Image 32An 1835 illustration of liberated Africans arriving in Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 33Bunce Island, 1805, during the period the slave factory was run by John and Alexander Anderson (from Sierra Leone)
Image 34A radio listener in Kailahun (from Sierra Leone)
Image 35A map of Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 36A farmer with his rice harvest in Sierra Leone. Two-thirds of Sierra Leone's population are directly involved in subsistence agriculture. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 37Sierra Leone electricity production by source (from Sierra Leone)
Image 38Sierra Leone's total population, from 1961 to 2013 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 39The Koindu dance (from Sierra Leone)
Image 40The road from Kenema to Kailahun District (from Sierra Leone)
Image 41The 14 districts and 2 areas of Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 42The distribution of major ethnic groups within Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 43A proportional representation of Sierra Leone exports, 2019 (from Sierra Leone)
Image 44National Stadium in Freetown (from Sierra Leone)
Image 45Historical GDP per capita development (from Sierra Leone)
Image 46A radio listener in Kailahun (from Sierra Leone)
Image 47National Stadium in Freetown (from Sierra Leone)
Image 48The Koindu dance (from Sierra Leone)
Image 49Temne leader Bai Bureh seen here in 1898 after his surrender, sitting relaxed in his traditional dress with a handkerchief in his hands, while a Sierra Leonean West African Frontier Force soldier stands guard next to him (from Sierra Leone)
Image 50Houses at Sierra-Leone (May 1853, X, p. 55) (from Sierra Leone)
Image 51The 14 districts and 2 areas of Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 52An 1835 illustration of liberated Africans arriving in Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 53A farmer with his rice harvest in Sierra Leone. Two-thirds of Sierra Leone's population are directly involved in subsistence agriculture. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 54Sierra Leone electricity production by source (from Sierra Leone)
Image 55Sierra Leone map of Köppen climate classification (from Sierra Leone)
Image 56Isata Mahoi shown editing radio programmes in Talking Drum studio Freetown; she is also an actress in the Sierra Leone radio soap opera Atunda Ayenda (from Sierra Leone)
Image 57Moa River Bridge, Sierra Leone. Lisk-Carew Brothers, Freetown, Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 58A school in Koindu destroyed during the Civil War; in total 1,270 primary schools were destroyed in the War. (from Sierra Leone)
Image 59The Sierra Leone Supreme Court in the capital Freetown, the highest and most powerful court in the country (from Sierra Leone)
Image 60A mosque and a church in Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 61A mosque and a church in Sierra Leone (from Sierra Leone)
Image 62Rice farming in Rolako (from Sierra Leone)

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The Sierra Leone women's national football team is governed by the Sierra Leone Football Association. (Full article...)

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Aniru Conteh British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War Sierra Leone at the 2016 Summer Paralympics 2017 Sierra Leone mudslides Sierra Leone at the 2012 Summer Olympics Western African Ebola virus epidemic Pygmy hippopotamus Operation Barras

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Topics

Provinces: Eastern Province • Northern Province • Southern Province • Western Area

History: Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate • Kingdom of Koya • British West Africa • Sierra Leone Liberated Africans • Sierra Leone Civil War • United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

Law: Sierra Leone Police • Special Court for Sierra Leone • Truth and Reconciliation Commission • Prisons in Sierra Leone

Politics: List of Presidents • Political Parties • Parliament • Foreign relations • Elections • Military of Sierra Leone

Geography: Protected • Sierra Leone River • Western Guinean lowland forests • Outamba-Kilimi National Park • Transport

Society: Sport • Demographics • Education • Cuisine • Media • Music

Symbols: Flag • Coat of arms • National anthem (High We Exalt Thee, Realm of the Free)

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Credit: Lindsay Stark
The road from Kenema to Kailahun District. (read more . . . )

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