There are five hundred Ahmadiyya Mosque across Sierra Leone. Each one of Sierra Leone's 14 districts is headed by a district police commissioner who is the professional head of their respective district. She employed her capacity for friendly communications to persuade the British to give her control of the Kpaa Mende chiefdom. The Yalunka also spelled Jallonke, Yalonga, Djallonk, Djallonka or Dialonk, are Mande people who have lived in the Djallon, a mountainous region in Sierra Leone, Mali, Senegal, Guinea Bissau and Guinea Conakry West Africa over 520 years ago. Next in proportion are the Kono, who live primarily in Kono District in Eastern Sierra Leone. Home Counties and Regions Maps Sierra Leone Provinces and Districts. [225], According to 2017 estimates, Sierra Leone has the third highest maternal mortality rate in the world. After they established Granville Town, most of the first group of colonists died, owing to disease and warfare with the indigenous African peoples (Temne), who resisted their encroachment. For more than a century, it was the only European-style university in western Sub-Saharan Africa. [64] With this change, the British began to expand their administration in the region, recruiting British citizens to posts and pushing Krios out of positions in government and even the desirable residential areas in Freetown.[64]. We operate Wellbody Clinic; support Koidu Government Hospital (KGH), Kono's only hospital; and are supporting smaller public primary . Daron Acemoglu, Tristan Reed. The AWC- Aberdeen Women's Centre in Freetown, the second busiest hospital in Sierra Leone, delivering up to 3000 babies each year. The six municipalities include Freetown, which functions as the local government for the Western Area Urban District, and Bo, Bonthe, Kenema, Koidu, and Makeni.[133][135][136]. Nwauwa, Apollos O. In the south, the plains comprise a rolling wooded country where isolated hills rise abruptly to more than 1,000 feet (300 metres). The country has three universities: Fourah Bay College, founded in 1827 (the oldest university in West Africa),[214] University of Makeni (established initially in September 2005 as The Fatima Institute, the college was granted university status in August 2009, and assumed the name University of Makeni, or UNIMAK), and Njala University, primarily located in Bo District. Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister on 21 March 1967. Some of Sierra Leonean international footballers include Mohamed Kallon, Mohamed Bangura, Rodney Strasser, Kei Kamara, Ibrahim Teteh Bangura, Mustapha Dumbuya, Christian Caulker, Alhassan Bangura, Sheriff Suma, Osman Kakay, Mohamed Kamara, Umaru Bangura and Julius Gibrilla Woobay. Inland from the coastal plain is the interior plains region. The current acting chief justice of Sierra Leone is Desmond Babatunde Edwards. Stevens had campaigned on a platform of bringing the tribes together under socialist principles. The Eastern Province is the center of the countrys diamond mining industry. East End Lions and Mighty Blackpool have an intense rivalry and when they play each other the national stadium in Freetown is often sold out and supporters of both clubs often clash with each other before and after the game. [87] This move led to another major demonstration against the government in many parts of the country, but it was also put down by the army and Stevens' SSD force. According to a 2020 estimates by the Pew Research Center[175] 78.5% of Sierra Leone's population are Muslims (mostly Sunni), 20.4% are Christians (mostly Protestants) and 1.1% belong to a traditional African religion or other beliefs. [41] The Sierra Leone Resettlement Scheme was proposed by entomologist Henry Smeathman and drew interest from humanitarians like Granville Sharp, who saw it as a means of showing the pro-slavery lobby that black people could contribute towards the running of the new colony of Sierra Leone. [185][186] The vast majority of Sierra Leonean Muslims are adherent to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam. Native to Sierra Leone, they have occupied Sherbro Island since it was founded. The coast has areas of low-lying Guinean mangroves swamp. The ACRM junta arrested many senior NRC members. On 28 December 1992, an alleged coup attempt against the NPRC government of Strasser, aimed at freeing the detained Colonel Yahya Kanu, Colonel Kahota M.S. Port Loko, the capital city of this province, was named for the Loko people and was established by Portuguese merchants. 267,827. To maintain the support of the military, Stevens retained the popular John Amadu Bangura as head of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. Margai was accused of favouring members of his own Mende ethnic group for prominent positions. [21] Bio handed power over to Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the SLPP, after the conclusion of elections in early 1996 which Kabbah won. One of the top-ranking soldiers in the NPRC Junta, Lieutenant Sahr Sandy, a trusted ally of Strasser, was assassinated, allegedly by Major S.I.M. Its capital and economic hub is Port Loko, and it is divided into three districts. [107] Mining and slash and burn for land conversion such as cattle grazing dramatically diminished forested land in Sierra Leone since the 1980s. In the 1790s, the Settlers, including adult women, voted for the first time in elections. The current president of Sierra Leone is former military junta leader Julius Maada Bio. Lieutenant Sandy was given a state funeral and his funeral prayers service at the cathedral church in Freetown was attended by many high-ranking soldiers of the NPRC junta, including Strasser himself and NPRC deputy leader Sergeant Solomon Musa. [156] Part of the reason for this was due to the import duties and taxes and the lack of quality control. Manga Sewa was born in Falaba, Solima chiefdom, in the Northern Province of British Sierra Leone to Yalunka parents. [114], Since independence in 1961, Sierra Leone's politics has been dominated by two major political parties: the SLPP and the APC. These problems became so severe that the SLPP boycotted the 1973 general election; as a result the APC won 84 of the 85 elected seats.[85]. [79] Due to the lack of access to basic education, women are the least prepared when it comes to processing business licences, registering names or contracting. [177][178][179] Most the major Muslim and Christian holidays are officially national holidays in the country, and religious conflict is rare.[180]. Ten years later, on 19 April 1971, the country became a republic, with an elected President as the Head of State. Cut off from their various homelands and traditions, the Liberated Africans were forced to assimilate to the Western styles of Settlers and Maroons. The figure for Freetown is for the Western Urban Area (Greater Freetown). [90] The NPRC Junta immediately suspended the constitution, banned all political parties, limited freedom of speech and freedom of the press and enacted a rule-by-decree policy, in which soldiers were granted unlimited powers of administrative detention without charge or trial, and challenges against such detentions in court were precluded. Multiple allegations were made during the COVID-19 lockdown period of police attacking people trying to obtain basic necessities.[130]. 132 members are elected concurrently with the presidential elections; the other 16 seats are filled by paramount chiefs from the country's 16 administrative districts. Statistics Sierra Leone in its report said the country started recording its population in 1963, then numbering two million one hundred and eighty thousand, three hundred and fifty-five (2,180,355). Bonthe is one of the sixteen districts of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Police is headed by the Inspector General of Police, the professional head of the Sierra Leone Police force, who is appointed by the president of Sierra Leone. Freetown has internet cafs and other businesses offering internet access. It is a flat, low-lying, and frequently flooded plain that is between 5 and 25 miles (8 and 40 km) wide and is composed mainly of sands and clays. Antagonism between the two entities escalated to a heated debate in 1947, when proposals were introduced to provide for a single political system for both the Colony and the Protectorate. The ratio of men and women in Bo District, Sierra Leone. Each of the country's 14 districts is represented in parliament. The report indicated that the countrys just-concluded first digital census proves that the nations population is Seven million, five hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and two (7,548,702). Since 1985, the nation did not conduct any census for 19 years. Supreme executive authority rests in the president and members of his cabinet and judicial power with the judiciary of which the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone is the head. Although the British government recommended leniency, Cardew insisted on sending the chief and two allies into exile in the Gold Coast; his government hanged 96 of the chief's warriors. [39] The Settlers built Freetown in the styles they knew from their lives in the American South; they also continued American fashion and American manners. The Western Area Urban District is one of the 16 districts of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leonean-Lebanese community are primarily traders and they mostly live in middle-class households in the urban areas, primarily in Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Koidu Town and Makeni. When the national football team, the Leone Stars, have a match, Sierra Leoneans across the country come together united in support of the national team and people rush to their local radio and television stations to follow the live match. Sierra Leone has one of the world's largest deposits of rutile, a titanium ore used as paint pigment and welding rod coatings. Despite Makeni being ethnically diverse just as the other major cities in the country, the Temne people account for the largest ethnic group in the city and the main language is the Krio language. Kenema is the most populated district in Sierra Leone, according to the preliminary report of the final result of the Mid-Term Census report released by Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) last week. Loggers have extended their operations to Nimini, Kono District, Eastern Province; Jui, Western Rural District, Western Area; Loma Mountains National Park, Koinadougu, Northern Province; and with plans to start operations in the Kambui Forest reserve in the Kenema District, Eastern Province. The country is among the top ten diamond producing nations. One of the most popular tourist destinations in Sierra Leone is located in this province: Outamba-Kilimi National Park. [92] Strasser was immediately flown into exile in a military helicopter to Conakry, Guinea. The national capital Freetown sits on a coastal peninsula, situated next to the Sierra Leone Harbour. Sierra Leone became an independent, sovereign state on 27 April 1961 with Milton Margai as its Prime Minister. The interior plateau and mountain region, encompassing roughly the eastern half of the country, is composed mainly of granite with a thick laterite (iron-bearing) crust; to the west, it is bounded by a narrow outcrop of mineral-bearing metamorphic rocks known as the Kambui Schists. The British Crown reorganised the Sierra Leone Company as the African Institution; it was directed to improve the local economy. Makeni is the administrative and economic center of the region. In other words, the population of Sierra Leone has grown almost three and half times it was in 1963 (2,180,355). Mineral exports remain the main currency earner. The centre provides a variety of maternal and child health services and is supported by not for profit organisations such as Freedom from Fistula,[231] The Aminata Maternal Foundation,[232][bettersourceneeded] and UNFPA. Nyagua also resisted the British. Each district has both major and small cities and towns. [20] Much trust was placed upon him as he championed multi-party politics. The large majority of Sierra Leonean Christians are Protestant, of which the largest groups are the Wesleyan Methodists. Children, youth and adult are frequently seen playing street football across Sierra Leone. The population of all Sierra Leonean cities and urban localities with more than 7.000 inhabitants according to census results. Domestic slavery, which continued to be practised by local African elites, was abolished in 1928. Momoh broke from former President Siaka Stevens by integrating the powerful SSD into the Sierra Leone Police as a special paramilitary force. There are four districts in the Northern Province: The Southern Province of Sierra Leone has the most coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. The 68% of the rural population without access to an improved water source relied on surface water (50%), unprotected wells (9%) and unprotected springs (9%). Stevens reorganised the country's oil refinery, the government-owned Cape Sierra Hotel, and a cement factory. The Mandinka are predominantly found in the east and the northern part of the country. This condition often drives women into poverty and isolation.[229]. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and many became refugees in Guinea and Liberia. Civil War In Sierra Leone And The Role Of "Blood Diamonds". There is a huge police presence inside and outside the national stadium during a match between the two great rivals to prevent a clash. Kenema is the most populated district in Sierra Leone, according to the preliminary report of the final result of the Mid-Term Census report released by Statistics Sierra Leone (Stats SL) last week. The Vai are largely Muslim majority at about 90%, while the Kru are virtually all Christians at over 99%. The president is the head of state, the head of government and the commander-in-chief of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. Koidu Town is ethnically diverse, and the primary language is the Krio language. [163] In the past this project received its funding of over $200 million from a combination of the World Bank, the African Development Bank, and the Italian company Salini Impregilo. There was great suspicion that president Momoh was not serious about his promise of political reform, as APC rule continued to be increasingly marked by abuses of power. [257] In 2007 there were 15 daily newspapers in the country, as well as those published weekly. The Eastern Province is located on the eastern side of Sierra Leone and borders Guinea and Liberia as well as two other Sierra Leone provinces. The Sierra Leone Armed Forces consist of around 15,500 personnel, comprising the largest Sierra Leone Army,[122] the Sierra Leone Navy and the Sierra Leone Air Wing. Current ratio of men and women in absolute and relative values in Bo District, Sierra Leone. Eventually, "Elections before Peace" won the debate. The highlands rise up to 700 feet, and are the highest in Sambaia Bendugu chiefdom. Sherbro was influential and powerful and the British greatly feared him. Sierra Leone appears on the EU list of prohibited countries with regard to the certification of airlines. [156] Previous to this compact agreement, Sierra Leone's private sector for solar energy was weak, as it provided energy to less than 5% of the target population. It works to prevent crime, protect life and property, detect and prosecute offenders, maintain public order, ensure safety and security, and enhance access to justice. Cultural events and festivals are also organized in the city on a regular basis. The country's national television network, The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) broadcasts the national football team live match, along with many local radio stations across the country. Margai was popular among Sierra Leoneans during his time in power, mostly known for his self-effacement. 28,813 (2015). [160] This overarching goal has been broken down into smaller goals as well. After the execution of Bangura, a group of soldiers loyal to the executed general held a mutiny in Freetown and other parts of the country in opposition to Stevens' government. The largest and most influential are the Temne at about 35.5% and the Mende at about 33.2%. The largest district geographically, Koinadugu, has a much lower density of 21.4 persons per square km. Many of the national team footballers are celebrities across Sierra Leone and they are often well known by the general population. The Sherbro are primarily fisherman and farmers, and they are predominantly found in Bonthe District. [3] [4] It is one of the sixteen Districts of Sierra Leone. The two biggest and most successful football clubs are East End Lions and Mighty Blackpool. Much of the recovery will depend on the success of the government's efforts to limit corruption by officials, which many feel was the chief cause of the civil war. 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