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Sierra Leone’s president declared a nationwide curfew Sunday after gunmen attacked the military's main and largest barracks in the West African nation's capital and then overran detention ...
After decades of seeking a bigger voice in the United Nations ' most powerful body, Africa "cannot wait any longer,” Sierra Leone's president told the Security Council on Monday. Chairing a ...
Sierra Leone is still healing from an 11-year civil war that ended more than two decades ago and its population of 8 million people is among the poorest in the world. Neighboring Guinea remains ...
Elections. This is a list of the next general elections around the world in sovereign states. The general elections listed are for the government of each jurisdiction. These elections determine the Prime Minister and makeup of the legislature in a parliamentary democracy, or the president and then the legislature in a system where separate ...
Sierra Leone's current territorial configuration was established by the British Empire in two historical phases: in 1808, the coastal Sierra Leone Colony was founded as a place to resettle returning Africans after the abolition of the slave trade; then in 1896, the inland Protectorate was created as a result of the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Sierra Leone is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Sierra Leone on 31 March 2020.
FREETOWN (Reuters) -Sierra Leone said it had pushed "renegade soldiers" who attempted to break into a military armoury in Freetown during the early hours of Sunday back to the outskirts of the ...
At around 4:30 in the morning [ 9] of 26 November 2023, a group of militants attacked the military armoury at the Wilberforce barracks in Freetown, Sierra Leone, [ 4][ 5] close to the presidential residence. [ 6] Later the same morning, they broke into Central Pademba Road Prison in Freetown, releasing nearly its entire population of 1,890 ...