How To Use Sierra leone In A Sentence
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Today, because of that initial donation, we have been able to raise additional funding for the now formidable Salone Microfinance Trust to fund microcredits for over 7,000 Sierra Leonean women and men!
Tiffany Persons: The Never-ending Story of One Donation
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A British cruiser chased us fruitlessly for two days off Sierra Leone, and enabled me not only to test the sailing qualities, but to get the _sailing trim_ of the "Estrella," in perfection.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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Sierra LeoneEnglish (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%)
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The former human rights and insurance lawyer said his commission would have no compunction about prosecuting corrupt foreign investors in court in the capital Freetown, and that could land them in a Sierra Leonean prison.
West African leaders pledge to battle corruption
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There are, however, many cultural barriers to be surmounted on the path toward a unified and modernized Sierra Leone.
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OKE: Sierra Leone is short of the resources needed to fully rehabilitate all of the ex-child combatants.
CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2005
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Introduction Prior to the recent controversy over the transfer of arms, little international attention was devoted to Sierra Leone.
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Civil servants and ministers were accused of conniving with the company in the supply of arms to Sierra Leone.
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It is never safe to flash wads of cash or walk around drunk in the middle of the night, whether in Sweden or Sierra Leone.
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The former dictator of Sierra Leone, now deposed, is living in his mom's place and playing cards at the local bar these days.
Boing Boing: July 28, 2002 - August 3, 2002 Archives
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Introduction Prior to the recent controversy over the transfer of arms, little international attention was devoted to Sierra Leone.
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Sierra Leone was the object of similar plunder, leaving an acephalous state in rampant disorder only to be stabilised by British Tommies.
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She runs a center that provides counseling and training for young women from around Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
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One, African Minerals, is active in Sierra Leone, the world's biggest source of blood diamonds (African Minerals was formerly called the Sierra Leone Diamond Company).
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Born in northern Makeni in 1953, Koroma, a Temne, one of the two largest ethnic groups in Sierra Leone, graduated from the country's
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Civil servants and ministers were accused of conniving with the company in the supply of arms to Sierra Leone.
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Taylor allegedly armed Sierra Leonean rebels with weapons used in brutal attacks against civilians in exchange for diamonds mined in that atrocities-ridden country.
Human Rights First: Naomi Campbell, Blood Diamonds, and the Big Picture
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He saw action in many theatres and was awarded Operational Service Medals for Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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A U. N.-backed war-crimes tribunal is now going after alleged war criminals -- most recently Taylor himself, indicted last month on charges that he'd backed drug-crazed guerrillas in return for access to rebel-dug Sierra Leonean diamonds.
Days Of Hope, Days Of Fear
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Sierra Leonean politics
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In 1808 Sierra Leone became a British crown colony, ruled under a colonial governor.
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Eleven-year-old Ishmael is living in the small village of Mogbwemo, Sierra Leone, as the story begins.
A Long Way Gone (copy)
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The colony plus the protectorate thus came to constitute what is now Sierra Leone.
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Unlike other countries emerging from conflict, such as Sierra Leone and Rwanda, there are no long-term pooled funding commitments in place, which makes any strategic planning difficult.
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And since the arrival of the British troops the number of UN peace keepers in Sierra Leone has doubled to 11,000, and the rebel advance has been turned into retreat.
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Most Sierra Leonean colonists, for instance, did not come from America.
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No doubt the nutritious quality of the tree is owing to the mucilage, which is apparently of the same nature as that of the nearly allied Tragacanth tree of Sierra Leone
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
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A similar commission was set up in Sierra Leone, which is struggling to recover from its own decade-long civil war that began in 1991.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Perhaps they have - although, as Sierra Leone showed this year, the arms trade is still its secretive, unwholesome self - but if lessons have been digested can they ever answer the conundrum posed by risk-aversion?
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The rivers of eastern Sierra Leone contain some of the most easily mined and plentiful supplies of diamonds on the planet.
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He saw action in many theatres and was awarded Operational Service Medals for Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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In Sierra Leone, English is used as the medium of instruction for all primary education.
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By comparison, 11,000 UN troops are deployed in Sierra Leone, which is one 30th the size of the DRC, and 42,000 in tiny Kosovo.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In 1984, he was made an officer of the Order of the Rokel of the Republic of Sierra Leone, the country's highest accolade.
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The story is similar in Sierra Leone, which is rebuilding from decades of civil war.
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They're actual legal postage in Sierra Leone and recognized by every postal authority around the world.
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New York Taxi Driver Rebrands Sierra Leone, " announced a Feb. 17 headline on Cocorioko.net, a Sierra Leonean news Web site owned by a government official.
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Although the band features players from the UK, Cameroon, France, Sierra Leone and Senegal, each member shares their musical foundation: open to influence, but without any dilution of content.
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So really, the dinner was about selling out Sierra Leonean kids for South African ones?
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Diseases which cause our young only minor discomfort kill one in four children from Sierra Leone before their fifth birthday.
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For example, among the Mende of Sierra Leone, boys must be initiated into the Poro Society before they are recognized as adult.
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The main feeling in British military circles is that Brigadier David Richards' paratroopers and Gurkha riflemen will be in Sierra Leone ‘for as long as it takes’.
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All six called for peaceful and democratic elections with the leader of the main opposition Ernest Koroma of the All People's Congress (APC) stressing that "the polls will put Sierra Leone in a position to advance or retrogress".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Sierra Leonedefinition: age 15 and over can read and write English, Mende, Temne, or Arabic total population: 35.1% male: 46.9% female: 24.4% (2004 est.)
Literacy
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Australia has resettled refugees from conflicts in Burundi, Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Sudan.
Immigrant Leaders Call for Talks After Violence in Australian City
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U.N. Security Council welcomed the political progress made in three countries, namely Sierra Leone, the Central African Republic and
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write English, Mende, Temne, or Arabic total population: 35.1% male: 46.9% female: 24.4% (2004 est.) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: Republic of Sierra Leone conventional short form: Sierra Leone local long form: Republic of Sierra Leone local short form: Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone
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In Sierra Leone, English is used as the medium of instruction for all primary education.
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It's election fever in the streets of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown.
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Instead, Aminatta Forna returns regularly to Sierra Leone, where she and her Temne relatives have created a school in her grandfather's village.
Paula Gordon: Grace
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He was 10 when his father enrolled him in weapons training -- the age many of the Sierra Leonean kids were drawn into battle.
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Prosecutors seek Ms. Campbell's testimony, as well as testimony from actress Mia Farrow, to help establish the timing of Taylor's possession of Sierra Leonean diamonds.
Human Rights First: Naomi Campbell, Blood Diamonds, and the Big Picture
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the Bantu population of Sierra Leone
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There was a camel corps from India, the Dyak police from Borneo, Muslim zaptiehs in their red fezzes, soldiers from Fiji, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Zanzibar and many more.
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On February 9, Sierra Leonean President H.E. Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma met with Ambassador Kuang Weilin at State House.
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We realized very quickly that Moammar Gadhafi was involved in setting up and creating the conditions by which the Sierra Leonean civil war kicked off in March of 1991.
Former Special Court Prosecutor Once Considered Indicting Gadhafi
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The Times further reported, "lawyers say such a declaration allows for the joining of the court on an ad-hoc basis and has been allowed before in the case of Sierra Leone, which is not a member.
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It is combined with different meats, gumbos, greens, and sauces, many still prepared and eaten according to the old traditions, although, unlike in Sierra Leone, pork or bacon is a frequent addition.
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In 2002, five women are discovered barbarously murdered in Sierra Leone.
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The two largest include the 1.3 million Temne (Sierra Leone) and 1.2 million Serere-Sine (Senegal).
Survey of West Africa: Peoples Summarized
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It applies from Somalia to Kosovo to Sierra Leone - that the peacekeeping force must be prepared to replace the governmental structure that has collapsed.
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An estimated 400 000 people have fled into neighbouring Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast and have been languishing in refugee camps, the sites of frequent unrest.
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Working in Sierra Leone, she found horrific decay among the children whose teeth she examined.
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The Mount Nimba range is a 40 km-long narrow ridge running southwest to northeast, part of a Guinean mountain backbone bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, of Precambrian basement rock, predominantly granites.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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the Republic of Sierra Leone celebrates its Pavilion Day on Friday inside the Joint-Africa Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo Site.
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Sierra Leone20 African ethnic groups 90% (Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%), Creole (Krio) 10% (descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century), refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
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Mercury goes on to quote from the Pall Mall, and I too go on quoting to show that these things are known and acknowledged to have taken place in a colony like Sierra Leone, which has had unequalled opportunities of becoming christianised for more than one hundred years, and now has more than one hundred and thirty places of Christian worship in it.
Travels in West Africa
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It comes from coastal regions of Sierra Leone, again in soft, acid water.
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Last December, the Liberians battled more than a sandy field to get to it in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
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Most Sierra Leoneans are illiterate (cannot read and write) and have few job choices.
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For almost all Sierra Leoneans, rice is the staple food, consumed at virtually every meal.
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Under a deal, Saif al-Islam would be taken to The Hague where the ICC shares a detention unit with the UN Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which is trying the former Liberian president Charles Taylor.
Gaddafi's son says he is innocent
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As for his other wars: they had saved Sierra Leone from a gang of gangsters.
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The new troops will train 1,000 raw recruits for the Sierra Leone army at a special camp.
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FALL: Well, Sierra Leone's issue is both an internal one and a sub - regional one because it implicates also the manner of the union countries, namely Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2001
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This confrontation is playing out in country after country today, from Indonesia to Sierra Leone, from Zimbabwe to Venezuela, from Russia to the Middle East.
Immigration, Libertarianism, and Democracy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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On the same day, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also exchanged congratulatory messages with his Sierra Leonean counterpart J. B. Dauda on the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
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Whether those bright-eyed girls will indeed become economically independent, free women, or will join the ranks of the 90% percent of Sierra Leonean women who undergo female genital mutilation, or the 13% of Sierra Leonean pregnant women who die during pregnancy or childbirth, or the 83% of Sierra Leonean girls who do not attend secondary school, will depend on the economic and educational opportunities they receive.
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Indeed, the effect of the Internet on a largely oral society like Sierra Leone will be profound.
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Introduction Prior to the recent controversy over the transfer of arms, little international attention was devoted to Sierra Leone.
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She chose Sierra Leone from four options offered her by aid charity Voluntary Service Overseas.
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The Gullah, who are also known as the Geechee in some parts of the South, are descended from slaves specifically brought from West Africa (now Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal) because of their familiarity with farming rice and cotton.
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In Sierra Leone, English is used as the medium of instruction for all primary education.
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A similar commission effort was launched in Sierra Leone, which is struggling to recover from its own decade-long civil war that began in 1991.
ANC Daily News Briefing
