The Sierra Leone country health profiles provide an overview of the situation and trends of priority health problems and the health systems profile, including a description of institutional frameworks, …

In 2006, the Sierra Leone Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in partnership with Y Care International (UK) conceived a 4-year project titled "Transforming Young People's Lives in Slum Settlements in Freetown". One key activity of this project was "to establish a local association of slum

The Sierra Leone NAP builds on the foundation laid by the NCCP, the National Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan and the National Adaptation Programmes of Action. Additionally, the NAP is borne out of the adaptation component of the Nationally Determined Contributions that Sierra Leone submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on

Sierra Leone is bordered on the north and east by Guinea, on the south by Liberia, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.. The country can be divided into four distinct physical regions: the coastal swamp, the Sierra Leone Peninsula, the interior plains, and the interior plateau and mountain region. The coastal swamp region extends along the …

terrorism (AML/CFT) measures in place in Sierra Leone as at the date of the on-site visit (15 to 26 July, 2019). It analyses the level of compliance with the Financial Action Task Force …

O ne thing is certain in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, says 18-year-old Abdullah: you are never far from a kush dealer. Some call its impact the "kush devil". For Abdullah, addiction ...

U.S. Assistance to Sierra Leone. In addition to long term development assistance programs, the U.S. has been among the largest bilateral donors to Sierra Leone during recent humanitarian health crises. Mission partners including the State Department, Department of Defense, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Centers for …

Arrive by sea. Lungi International, Freetown's airport, is across a sea estuary from Freetown. You can go the long way round over land, but the quickest and safest airport transfer is by boat. For US$40, the Sea Coach or the Sea will carry you and your bags to Freetown's west end, covering the 17-mile distance in under half an hour.

Samura Kamara served as Minister of Finance and then Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Ernest Bai Koroma (2007-2018). He was defeated by …

Kamara has pledged to revamp Sierra Leone's agricultural and mining sectors, reverse the outflow of foreign exchange and restore confidence in the currency …

The Currency of Sierra Leone is the Sierra Leonean leone. The current official currency of Sierra Leone is Sierra Leonean leone (Le, SLL). It is subdivided into 100 cents. The Central Bank of Sierra Leone is in charge of issuing and distributing the currency. Coins. Currently, coins in denominations of 10, 50, 100, 500 leones are in circulation.

The Krio people of Sierra Leone are partly descended from former enslaved Africans who fought for the British in the American War of Independence, in exchange for promises of freedom.

Sierra Leone's 43-month ECF arrangement was approved on November 30, 2018 for SDR 124.44 million (about US$172.1 million at that time or around 60 percent of the country's quota), and extended by 12 months on July 27, 2021. The program aims to reduce inflation, mobilize revenue to allow for necessary spending consistent with debt ...

Sierra Leone has cancelled a $400m (£304m) Chinese-funded project to build a new airport outside the capital Freetown. Former President Ernest Bai Koroma signed the loan agreement with China ...

Washington, DC – March 15, 2021 The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved the disbursement of SDR 35.26 million (US$50.37 …

AFP. Mr Koroma's party has denied the corruption allegations. The authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a travel ban on former President Ernest Bai Koroma and several officials who served ...

SIERRA LEONE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORT—PUBLIC INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT This Technical Assistance Paper on Sierra Leone was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund. It is based on the information available at the time it was completed in March 2020. Copies of this report are available …

Groundnut stew. Rice and cassava are the staples of the Sierra Leonean diet. Fufu is prepared from pounded cassava and water. Yams, plantain, okra, and peanuts are also widely consumed. Beef, …

Sierra Leonen tasavalta (engl. Republic of Sierra Leone) eli Sierra Leone on valtio Länsi-Afrikassa Atlantin valtameren rannikolla. Sen rajanaapurit ovat Guinea pohjoisessa ja Liberia kaakossa. Sierra Leonessa on trooppinen ilmasto ja monipuolinen luonto, joka vaihtelee savanneista sademetsiin.Maan pinta-ala on 71 740 neliökilometriä ja väkiluku vuonna …

Freetown, capital, chief port, and largest city of Sierra Leone, on the rocky Sierra Leone Peninsula, at the seaward tip of a range of wooded hills, which were named Serra Leôa ("Lion Mountains") by the Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra when he explored the West African coast in 1462.By the 1650s the increased activity of British, …

Youth groups have become a more potent force in Sierra Leone's elections than ethnicity or regionalism. The young have been most disadvantaged by endemic corruption, and have suffered most from the …

2014-2016 - Sierra Leone declares a state of emergency to tackle the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa which persists into 2016, killing more than 11,000 people in the region. Image source ...

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's capital Freetown has been hit by power cuts after Turkey's Karpowership switched off the electricity supply due to an unpaid debt of around $40 million, the ...

1896 - Britain sets up a protectorate over the Freetown hinterland. 1954 - Sir Milton Margai, leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party, appointed chief minister. 1961 - Sierra Leone becomes ...

Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa, bordering Guinea to the north, and Liberia to the southeast. It gained independence from Britain in 1961. Sierra Leone's long running civil war (1991 to 2002) killed an estimated 50,000 and displaced more than two million people out of a total population of six million.

workers in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of the Congo also told The New Humanitarian that aid workers still represented a large part of their clientele. "Foreign men think that we like the life, but I hate it," said *Isata, a 17-year-old worker in Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown, who said aid workers were among her clients ...

Sierra Leone's mangrove forests were a centerpiece of one of USAID's major environmental aid projects in recent years, the West Africa Biodiversity and Climate Change (WABiCC) program, a $48.9 ...

Sierra Leone - Politics, Economy, Society: The constitution of 1971 made Sierra Leone a republic within the Commonwealth. Adoption of the constitution of 1978 created a one-party republic based on the All People's Congress; the head of state, or executive president, was elected by delegates of the All People's Congress, and there was a parliament. Mounting …

Sierra Leone is bordered on the north and east by Guinea, on the south by Liberia, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. The country can be divided into four …

Sierra Leone has been a source of and destination for refugees. Sierra Leone's civil war internally displaced as many as 2 million people, or almost half the population, and forced almost another half million to seek refuge in neighboring countries (370,000 Sierra Leoneans fled to Guinea and 120,000 to Liberia).

Marampa Mining Site, Lunsar, Thursday 5 May 2022 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has commissioned the expansion project of the Marampa Mines Limited, MML, a subsidiary of the Gerald Group, from 2 million dry tonnes per annum, DMTPA, to 3.25 MTPA, after the world's largest independent, employee-owned metal …

Sierra Leone is a peaceful place," he said. 00:01:05. Police fire at demonstrators protesting over cost of living spikes in Sierra Leone – video.