Margai was accused of favouring members of his own Mende ethnic group for prominent positions. 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). After a trial that lasted a few months, Bangura was convicted and sentenced to death. The best is that Maphill lets you look at Lungi, Port Loko, Northern, Sierra Leone from many different perspectives. [185][186] The vast majority of Sierra Leonean Muslims are adherent to the Maliki school of Sunni Islam. On 29 March 1970, Brigadier Bangura was executed by hanging in Freetown. At the end of the 19th century, the industry went into decline, and when radio was introduced in the 1930s, it became the primary communication media in the country. A strong free journalistic tradition developed with the creation of several newspapers. The city is governed by an elected city council and is headed by a Mayor. The president of the United Council of Imam is Sheikh Alhaji Muhammad Habib Sheriff. Within the confines of the 1991 Constitution, supreme legislative powers are vested in Parliament, which is the law-making body of the nation. The Western Area Urban District exclusively comprises the entire city of Freetown, the national capital, and its divided into the . 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. [189][190][191][192][193] Other Christian Protestant denominations with significant presence in the country include Presbyterians,[194] Baptists,[195] Seventh-day Adventists[196] Anglicans,[197] Lutherans,[198][199] and Pentecostals. [258] Among newspaper readership, young people are likely to read newspapers weekly and older people daily. Elements of the British Army, together with administrators and politicians, remained after withdrawal to help train the armed forces, improve the infrastructure of the country and administer financial and material aid. Sierra Leone is home to about sixteen ethnic groups, each with its own language. This ended its 16years of running the Colony. Two other commercial TV operators (ABC and AIT) closed after they were not profitable. In the 1972 by-elections, the opposition SLPP complained of intimidation and procedural obstruction by the APC and militia. The Krio have traditionally dominated Sierra Leone's judiciary and Freetown's elected city council. [123], The president of Sierra Leone is the Commander in Chief of the military, with the Minister of Defence responsible for defence policy and the formulation of the armed forces. Football is the most popular sport in this city, and its home to the Kamboi Eagles professional football club. Each one of Sierra Leone's sixteen administrative districts (with the exception of the Western Area Urban District) is governed by a directly elected district council headed by a council chairman. It is by far the most populous district in the country with a population of 1,050,301 and is located in the Western Area of the country. 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 Kuranko are primarily farmers; leaders among them have traditionally held several senior positions in the Military. [262] However, the team was unable to obtain Canadian visas to play in the tournament, which was held in Toronto.[263]. [48] In 1792, in a move that foreshadowed the women's suffrage movements in Britain, the heads of all households, of which a third were women, were given the right to vote. 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%). Primary education is free and compulsory in government-sponsored public schools. The Sierra Leone Peninsula, which is the site of Freetown, is a region of thickly wooded mountains that run parallel to the sea for about 25 miles (40 km). Siaka Stevens retired from politics in November 1985 after being in power for eighteen years. Rich in minerals, Sierra Leone has relied on mining, especially diamonds, for its economic base. Krio (derived from English and several indigenous African languages, and the language of the Sierra Leone Krio people) is the most widely spoken language in virtually all parts of Sierra Leone. According to an Overseas Development Institute report, private health expenditure accounts for 85.7% of total spending on health. General Tarawalie was also a strong loyalist and key Momoh supporter. [1] [2] Previously, the country was divided into 14 districts. The city had a population of 34,079 in the 2004 census and a 2013 estimate of 40,000. The British later captured Nyagua, and he was also exiled to the Gold Coast. Another prominent figure in Sierra Leone history is Bai Sherbro (c.18301912). A one-party parliamentary election between APC members was held in May 1986. Sierra Leone is home to Sub-Saharan Africa's first Western-style university: Fourah Bay College (established in 1827). The interior contains a variety of landforms ranging from savanna-covered low plains to rocky scarp and hill country. Football is an important part of Kenema's culture being home to one of Sierra Leone's most famous international footballer known as Mohamed Kallon. Many Ahmadiyya Muslims in Sierra Leone also follow the Maliki Jurisprudence. Sierra Leone has other smaller cities and towns that make up the geographic region of the country. Bio would then return the country back to a democratic republic in 1996 through a general election. Waterloo is a major urban transport hub and lies on the . Current ratio of men and women in absolute and relative values in Koinadugu District, Sierra Leone. The city of Bo, also called Bo Town, is the economic hub of the Southern Province and Sierra Leones second-largest city. This environment protected its people from conquest by the Mandinka and other African empires,[30][31] and limited the influence of the Mali Empire. She employed her capacity for friendly communications to persuade the British to give her control of the Kpaa Mende chiefdom. Kenema is also governed by an elected city council and headed by a Mayor. To formalise his war against corruption, President Momoh announced a "Code of Conduct for Political Leaders and Public Servants". The district has the highest percentage, a total of 10.2%, making it the most populated in the country. Pro-slavery advocates accused the Black Poor of being responsible for a large proportion of crime in 18th century London. The Sierra Leone national football team, popularly known as the Leone Stars, represents the country in international competitions. Krio culture reflects the Western culture and ideals within which many of their ancestors originated they also had close ties with British officials and colonial administration during years of development. Internet access in Sierra Leone has been sparse but is on the increase, especially since the introduction of 3G/4G cellular phone services across the country. Sierra Leone's tropical climate, heavy annual rainfall, and abundance of rivers give it the potential to realistically pursue more solar and hydropower alternatives. 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[99] On 16 March 2016, the World Health Organization declared Sierra Leone to be free from Ebola.[100]. A general election was called later that year in which corruption was again endemic; the APC won 74 seats and the SLPP 15. [228], One of the consequences women in Sierra Leone face after a prolonged and obstructed labour that would have required a c-section is obstetric fistula. One source estimates the population at 14,915,[173] whilst another puts it as high as 85,313. [159] There is also potential for several new hydroelectric plants to be opened on the Sewa River, Pampana River, Seli River, Moa River, and Little Scarcies. However, the main suspect, Major S.I.M. Annual production of Sierra Leone's diamond estimates range between US$250 million$300million. The large majority of SLPP members backed Albert Margai over Karefa-Smart. 50%. When Sierra Leone gained independence in 1961, the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force was created from the Sierra Leone Battalion of the West African Frontier Force. [42] William Pitt the Younger, prime minister and leader of the Tory party, had an active interest in the Scheme because he saw it as a means to repatriate the Black Poor to Africa, since "it was necessary they should be sent somewhere, and be no longer suffered to infest the streets of London". Sierra Leone, [note 1] officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. The Sierra Leone Police under Bambay Kamara's leadership was accused of physical violence, arrest and intimidation against critics of President Momoh's government. Sierra Leone's former defense minister Alfred Paolo Conteh is an ethnic Limba. According to the Emergency Food Security Assessment in Sierra Leone 2015, over 57% of the district . [233], Mental healthcare in Sierra Leone is almost non-existent. On 16 January 1996, after about four years in power, Strasser was arrested in a palace coup staged by his fellow NPRC soldiers led by Brigadier Bio at the Defence Headquarters in Freetown. The district capital is the town of Port Loko and its . Of that 12%, 10% was in the capital Freetown, and the remaining 90% of the country used 2% of the nation's electricity. In 2015, CDC established an office in Sierra Leone to focus on global health security and . The 2021 census is a mid-term census. town in the district of the same name and was the colonial rulers . The widely spoken dialect and the main language of communication in the city is the Krio. [218], A dialysis machine, the first of its kind in the country, was donated by Israel.[219]. The first ETU and laboratory in Bombali District were established in late November and early December 2014, respectively. 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. There is also a supply of natural resources such as gold, aluminum, and bauxite, which also contribute to the local economy. Now that the provinces have been divided, an exact measurement of the new provincial areas is unknown. The districts of Sierra Leone The provinces of Sierra Leone are divided into 16 districts. Among the soldiers arrested was a little-known army corporal, Foday Sankoh, a strong Bangura supporter, who would later form the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The APC currently has 68 of the 132 elected parliamentary seats and the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) has 49 of the elected 132 parliamentary seats. Dozens of soldiers loyal to the ousted president Momoh were arrested, including Colonel Kahota M. Dumbuya and Major Yayah Turay. Different sources give different estimates. Several religious funded TV stations operate intermittently. The overwhelming majority of Sierra Leonean Muslims, are adherent to the Sunni tradition of Islam in practice. [257] These levels do vary between areas of the country, with the Western Area having the highest levels and Kailahun the lowest. The first of the 6,000-member force began arriving in December, and the UN Security Council voted in February 2000 to increase the force to 11,000, and later to 13,000. The most populous district, by far, is the Western Urban District. A traditional leader from each district has a seat in the countrys parliament, and each district is governed by an elected council. The taxes were often higher than the value of the dwellings, and 24 chiefs signed a petition to Cardew, stating how destructive this was; their people could not afford to take time off from their subsistence agriculture. [25], Archaeological finds show that Sierra Leone has been inhabited continuously for at least 2,500 years;[27] populated successively by societies who migrated from other parts of Africa. In Kono District, a rural eastern region of 500,00 people, famous for its diamond mines and as the epicenter of Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, PIH is investing in every level of the health system. Bai Sherbro was a chief and warrior on Bonthe Island, in the southwestern part of the country. 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. 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. In other words, the population of Sierra Leone has grown almost three and half times it was in 1963 (2,180,355). [220] Ajisafe was apparently angry after a Zimbabwean Muslim cleric Mufti Menk had visited Sierra Leone and preached to large crowds. The largest city is Freetown with a population of 836 574. Nearly 20,000 Liberian refugees voluntarily returned to Liberia over the course of 2007. Oftentimes the documentation would be overwhelmingly subjective and would result in inaccurate entries, making them difficult to track. 2004 saw a population of four million, nine hundred and seventy-six thousand eight hundred and seventy-one (4,976,871) and in the 2015 census Sierra Leone recorded a total population of seven million and ninety-two thousand, one hundred and thirteen (7,092,113), the last census before the latest mid-term population and housing census which indicated a total of eight hundred and forty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-four (843,254) residential buildings, whilst for non-residential a total of seven thousand five hundred and three ( 7,503). No style is the best. 131,001. The city was established by Lieutenant John Clarkson, African American ex-slaves and free people known as the Nova Scotian Settlers on March 11th, 1792, making Freetown the oldest capital created by African Americans. [103] The country's population is mostly young, with an estimated 41.7% under 15, and rural, with an estimated 62% of people living outside the cities. [188] The two largest mosques in Sierra Leone are the Freetown Central Mosque and the Ghadafi Central Mosque (built by former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi), both located in the capital Freetown. In 2014, an Ebola virus epidemic in Sierra Leone began that widely affected the country,[96] including forcing Sierra Leone to declare a state of emergency. Sierra Leone has a vibrant Ahmaddiya Muslim population, especially in the southern city of Bo, which is home to a large Ahmadiyya Muslim population. [159], In conjunction with the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), Sierra Leone has set the goal to provide solar power to all of its citizens by 2025. [240][241] In early August 2014 Guinea closed its borders to Sierra Leone to help contain the spreading of the virus, which originated in Guinea, as more new cases of the disease were being reported in Sierra Leone than in Guinea. Nyagua also resisted the British. [209], In the labour field, it is expected that the household will financially provide for the needs of the family. On 19 July 1975, 14 senior army and government officials, including David Lansana, former cabinet minister Mohamed Sorie Forna (father of writer Aminatta Forna), Brigadier General Ibrahim Bash Taqi and Lieutenant Habib Lansana Kamara were executed after being convicted of attempting a coup to topple president Stevens' government. With the lack of new faces in the new APC cabinet under president Momoh and the return of many of the old faces from Stevens' government, criticisms soon arose that Momoh was simply perpetuating the rule of Stevens. [81], On 18 April 1968 a group of low ranking soldiers in the Sierra Leone Army who called themselves the Anti-Corruption Revolutionary Movement (ACRM), led by Brigadier General John Amadu Bangura, overthrew the NRC junta. Freetown is governed by the city council that is elected directly and serves for a four-year term and is headed by the Mayor. In eastern Sierra Leone the plateau is interspersed with high mountains, where Mount Bintumani reaches 1,948m (6,391ft), the highest point in the country. Led by Colonel Montague James, the Maroons helped the colonial forces to put down the revolt, and in the process the Jamaican Maroons in Sierra Leone secured the best houses and farms. Next to the president is the vice-president, who is the second highest-ranking government official in the executive branch of the Sierra Leone Government. Following the 1995 National Consultative Conference at the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown, dubbed "Bintumani I", which was a Strasser-led initiative, another National Consultative Conference at the same Bintumani Hotel in Freetown, dubbed "Bintumani II", was initiated by the Bio administration that involved both national and international stakeholders, in an effort to find a viable solution to the issues plaguing the country. Each district has both major and small cities and towns. In November 1968, unrest in the provinces led Stevens to declare a state of emergency across the country. Colonel Frederic Cardew, military governor of the Protectorate, in 1898 established a new tax on dwellings and demanded that the chiefs use their people to maintain roads. The most widely spoken language among different ethnic groups in the city is Krio. [187] The United Council of Imams, is an influential Islamic religious body in Sierra Leone, that is made up of all imams of mosques throughout Sierra Leone. In the north, from 1820 to 1906, there was a Limba chief named Almamy Suluku who ruled his territory for many years, fighting to protect his territory, while at the same time using diplomacy to trick the protectorate administrators while sending fighters to assist Bai Bureh, a prominent Temne chief in Kasseh who was fighting against the imposition of the "hut tax" by the colonial administrators. Some claim that Magburaka should be included in the above list, but there is considerable difference among sources. [248][249][250][251][252][253] Some subjects are seen as taboo by society and members of the political elite; imprisonment and violence have been used by the political establishment against journalists. Sierra Leone is known for its blood diamonds that were mined and sold to diamond conglomerates during the civil war, to buy the weapons that fuelled its atrocities. Together these peoples formed the Krio ethnicity and an English-based creole language, (Krio), which is the lingua franca and de facto national language used among many of the ethnicities in the country. To be qualified as a Member of Parliament, the person must be a citizen of Sierra Leone, must be at least 21 years old, must be able to speak, read and write the English language with a degree of proficiency to enable him to actively take part in proceedings in Parliament; and must not have any criminal conviction. The British Crown reorganised the Sierra Leone Company as the African Institution; it was directed to improve the local economy. Highlighting the specifics, the report shows that women still make up the majority of Sierra Leones population at three million, eight hundred and twenty thousand, nine hundred and fifty-five (3,820,955) which is 50.6% of the total population. "A Systems View and Lesson from the Ongoing Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in West Africa". Madam Yoko (c. 18491906) was a brilliant woman of culture and ambition. [158] There have been strong pushes for both solar and hydropower to become the dominant sources of energy in Sierra Leone because of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly goal number seven (affordable and clean energy). Diamond mining has been an important part of Sierra Leones history since diamonds were discovered here in the 1930s. The Mende predominate in South-Eastern Sierra Leone (with the exception of Kono District). 12. More and more of the country fell into the hands RUF fighters, and by 1994 they had gotten control of much of the diamond-rich Eastern Province and were getting close toward the capital Freetown. Setting: Twenty-seven peripheral health units, five secondary hospitals and one tertiary hospital, Western Area District, Sierra Leone.Objectives: To describe reporting systems, monthly attendances and facility-based patterns of six non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the pre-Ebola and Ebola virus disease outbreak periods.Design: A cross-sectional study using programme data. The population of all Sierra Leonean cities and urban localities with more than 7.000 inhabitants according to census results. "Gbendembu" had a larger population of 12,139 in that census. Bo is closely behind Kenema with 10.0%, whilst Western Rural, Kono and Western Area Urban with 8.8%, 8.2%, and 8.1% are third, fourth and fifth respectively. 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