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| | Sierra Leone - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sierra Leone |
 | | Kabbah, of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), was returned to power in May elections with a high voter turnout. | | | On 18 May Foday Sankoh was shot and captured by Sierra Leonean forces and held under UN supervision, while fighting continued and different factions called simultaneously for Sankoh to be executed for his crimes and to be used as a political bargaining tool to gain the release of the UN hostages held by his rebels. | | | Sierra Leone achieved full independence as a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth in 1961, with Sir Milton Margai, leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), as prime minister. |
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| | International Peacemaking and Human Rights Programs |
| | Sierra Leone held presidential and parliamentary elections in May 2002 following the end of a decade of devastating civil war. | | | To help promote peaceful elections after a devastating civil war, Sierra Leone officials invited The Carter Center to observe presidential and parliamentary elections in May 2002. | | | A long road still lies ahead for Sierra Leoneans as they seek to consolidate democratic institutions, reaffirm the rule of law, and build a framework for sustainable development. |
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| | Sierra Leone. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | General elections scheduled for early 2001 were postponed in Feb., 2001, due to the insecurity caused by the civil war. | | | However, the Creoles were a small minority in the combined colony and protectorate, and in the elections of 1951 the protectorate-based Sierra Leone Peoples party (SLPP), led by Dr. Milton Margai (a Mende), emerged victorious. | | | In 1863 an advisory legislative council was established in Sierra Leone. |
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| | Sierra Leone |
| | The Constitution provides for the right of citizens to change their government, and the 1996 elections won by Ahmed Tejan Kabbah and his Sierra Leone People's Party were the first free and fair multiparty elections in the country in 30 years. | | | Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a directly elected president and a unicameral legislature; President Tejan Kabbah was elected in 1996. | | | Sierra Leone is an extremely poor country with a market-based economy; per capita earnings for the population of approximately 4.5 million are less than $150 (300,000 Leones) per year. |
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| | Sierra Leone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The head of state and government is the president, who is elected every five years (most recently in May 2002). | | | Sierra Leone is the worst nation for childbirth in the world, having the highest Maternal Mortality Ratio, or risk of maternal death, of any country. | | | Much of Sierra Leone's coastline consists of mangrove swamps, with the exception of the peninsula on which the capital city Freetown is located. |
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| | African Political Parties and Organizations on the Web |
| | Political party whose leader is Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone. | | | Has a political parties directory, the results of the 1991 and 1996 presidential elections, the 1998 local government elections, the 1991and 1996 parliamentary elections, text of election related Acts, members of Parliament announcements. | | | Has a directory of political parties, the April 2002 Presidential Election, election statistics, the electoral process, decentralization, full text of the electoral law, regional government officials, borders relations, list of Christian and Muslim organizations in Mali, population statistics, another list of political parties, their leaders and addresses. |
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| | Sierra Leone - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sierra Leone |
| | Kabbah, of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), was returned to power in May elections with a high voter turnout. | | | Civil unrest continued, however, and west African peace-keepers in late December 1998 had to be called upon to drive rebels out of Sierra Leone's main northern town, Makeni, as thousands of people demonstrated in Freetown in support of president Kabbah. | | | On 18 May Foday Sankoh was shot and captured by Sierra Leonean forces and held under UN supervision, while fighting continued and different factions called simultaneously for Sankoh to be executed for his crimes and to be used as a political bargaining tool to gain the release of the UN hostages held by his rebels. |
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| | Sierra Leone. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | In 1863 an advisory legislative council was established in Sierra Leone. | | | Sierra Leone was a minor source of slaves for the transatlantic slave trade during the 17th and 18th cent. | | | Sierra Leone’s economy is predominantly agricultural, with most of its workers engaged in subsistence farming. |
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| | Sierra Leone: The Forgotten Crisis Report to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, P.C., M.P. from David Pratt, M.P., Nepean-Carleton, Special Envoy to Sierra Leone April 23, 1999 | | | The President's party, the Sierra Leone People's Party, has had a majority in the Parliament since 1996. | | | Sierra Leone is rich in minerals and is one of the world's most important sources of large diamonds. |
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| | Kabbah, of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), was returned to power in May elections with a high voter turnout. | | | Sierra Leone achieved full independence as a constitutional monarchy within the Commonwealth in 1961, with Sir Milton Margai, leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), as prime minister. | | | On 18 May Foday Sankoh was shot and captured by Sierra Leonean forces and held under UN supervision, while fighting continued and different factions called simultaneously for Sankoh to be executed for his crimes and to be used as a political bargaining tool to gain the release of the UN hostages held by his rebels. |
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| | Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Background on Sierra Leone |
| | Margai’s Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) was supplanted after his death with the All Peoples Congress (APC) in the elections of 1967. | | | In 1896 the Colony and protectorate of Sierra Leone was established to limit French colonial ambitions in the region. | | | Sierra Leone is located in Western Africa and Borders with Liberia (South West and South East) and Guinea (North-West and North East). |
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| | Sierra Leone: history |
| | The presidential elections held in February as planned were won by Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of the Sierra Leone Peopleâs Party (SLPP) in the second round with nearly 60 per cent of the vote. | | | In 1961, Sir Milton Margai, secretary general of Sierra Leone Peopleâs Party (SLPP), became the first prime minister of an independent Sierra Leone. | | | In 1960, the British wanted to withdraw from Sierra Leone, and an agreement was negotiated with the traditional leaders to protect their interests. |
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| | Being an Act to make provision f |
| | Every citizen of Sierra Leone being eighteen years of age and above and of sound mind shall have the right to vote, and accordingly shall be entitled to be registered as a voter for the purposes of public elections and referenda. | | | Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the executive power in Sierra Leone shall vest in the President and may be exercised by him directly or through members of the Cabinet, Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Deputy Ministers or public officers subordinate to him. | | | Sierra Leone shall be divided into such constituencies for the purpose of electing the Members of Parliament referred to in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 74 of this Constitution as the Electoral Commission, acting with the approval of Parliament signified by resolution of Parliament, may prescribe. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Background |
| | The government eventually suppressed or came to terms with most political-military groups, settled a territorial dispute with Libya on terms favorable to Chad, drafted a democratic constitution, and held multiparty presidential elections in 1996 and 1997. | | | Free and peaceful elections in 1999 resulted in a government led by an Indo-Fijian, but a coup in May 2000 ushered in a prolonged period of political turmoil. | | | A three-year-old Marxist government was overthrown in 1973 by a dictatorial military regime led by Augusto PINOCHET, who ruled until a freely elected president was installed in 1990. |
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| | Sierra Leone |
| | With 70 percent of the electorate participating, Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was elected President in the first free and fair elections since 1967. | | | Sierra Leone: The Forgotten Crisis Report to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Lloyd Axworthy, P.C., M.P. from David Pratt, M.P., Nepean-Carleton, Special Envoy to Sierra Leone April 23, 1999 | | | The President's party, the Sierra Leone People's Party, has had a majority in the Parliament since 1996. |
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| | The Epoch Times Sierra Leone Votes in First Local Elections in 30 Years |
| | Sierra Leone Votes in First Local Elections in 30 Years | | | Both observers and the national election commission say they will be monitoring the polling stations closely on election day to ensure a free and fair vote. | | | The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone has been helping with logistics, using its helicopters to transport ballot papers and boxes, while the European Union is footing about a third of the $8 million bill. |
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| | CULTURE-SIERRA LEONE: Women's Traditional Society Decides Votes |
| | In the campaigning for this year's elections, as has been the case in previous ones, politicians are being careful not to offend members of the Bondo. | | | FREETOWN, May 11 (IPS) - The sole woman candidate in Sierra Leone's May 14 elections has denied that members of the traditional women's secret society, the Bondo, chased her out of town. | | | Many Sierra Leonean politicians since independence in 1961 have preferred to court, rather than offend the Bondo society. |
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| | President Kabbah: Nomination Acceptance Speech - 16 March 2002 - Sierra Leone Web |
| | Our Party must ensure that in the forthcoming elections voters take into account the need to choose candidates with proven commitment to the principles of good governance and the rule of law. | | | Chairman, fellow Party members, in choosing me as your candidate for the Presidency for the second time, the SLPP has made one giant step forward on the road to political stability and economic recovery of Sierra Leone. | | | It expressed “satisfaction over the remarkable improvement in the political developments in Sierra Leone” and noted that we have fully complied with the Commonwealth principles on good governance, principles that were elaborated in the Harare Declaration of 1999. |
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| | Sierra Leone Live News |
| | Leaders of twelve political parties in Sierra Leone were yesterday, barred from entering the National Electoral Commission offices to register their grievances over the conduct of the ongoing voter registration for the forthcoming elections in May this year. | | | LEAD-IN: In Sierra Leone, former rebels of the Revolutionary United Front Party, the RUF, are appealing to ECOWAS to intervene in the countrys upcoming elections. | | | Sierra Leone House of Parliament was officially dissolved on Wednesday in a ceremony graced by his Excellency the President Dr Alhaji Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. |
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| | Sierra Leone: Biography of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah |
| | In May 2002 he led the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) to victory in Presidential and Parliamentary elections that were described by the United Nations as fair, orderly and violence-free. | | | Following the military coup in 1992, he was asked to chair the National Advisory Council, one of the mechanisms established by the junta to facilitate the restoration of constitutional rule, including the drafting of a new constitution for Sierra Leone. | | | President Kabbah was born in Pendembu, Kailahun District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone, on 16 February 1932. |
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| | Sierra Leone Documents - Sierra Leone Web |
| | Report on Sierra Leone's May 2002 elections by the Carter Center. | | | The Law People See: The Status of Dispute Resolution in the Provinces of Sierra Leone in 2002. | | | A memorandum of understanding between six opposition political parties to collaborate and eventually to merge prior to the 2001 elections. |
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| | afrol News - Sierra Leone, Liberia peacekeepers to stay |
| | While deciding on the continued progressive scaling down of the mission's size, the Council urged authorities in Sierra Leone to "accelerate its efforts to establish viable institutions so that it can take full responsibility for law and order." | | | afrol News, 17 September - The UN Security Council today decided to extend the mandates of its two major peacekeeping missions in West Africa; in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and in Liberia (UNMIL). | | | According to a report by Mr Annan, Sierra Leone is making "gradual progress towards stability and peace but many problems remain, especially in security." Sierra Leone's army still lacks the logistical, communications, accommodation and transport capacities necessary to do its work effectively across the whole of the country. |
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| | Sierra Leone Civil War, 1991- |
| | The Nigerian Contingent at UNAMSIL, Sierra Leone, by Nowa Omoigui | | | Civil war erupted in Liberia to the south and the chaos soon spread to Sierra Leone in 1991 as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), closely linked to Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), sought control of Sierra Leone's rich diamond mines and overthrow of the government. | | | Strasser's deputy and Defense Minister, Julius Maada Bio, deposed him and promised elections |
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| | Sierra Leone |
| | In May peaceful presidential and parliamentary elections were held; Ahmed Tejan Kabbah was re-elected President and his Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) won a large majority in Parliament. | | | In 2000 the Armed Forces of the Republic of Sierra Leone (Amendment) Act reinstated the right of members of the armed forces to appeal a sentence handed down by a court-martial to the Court of Appeal. | | | Sierra Leone was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as an observer. |
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| | A short history of Sierra Leone |
| | The Sierra Leone People's Party of Milton Margai wins the elections of 1957. | | | In 1961 Sierra Leone becomes independence with the British queen as head of state. | | | Originally present-day Sierra Leone, is inhabited by the Sherbro, followed by the Temne, Limba and Susu. |
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| | Sierra Leone Live News |
| | Leaders of twelve political parties in Sierra Leone were yesterday, barred from entering the National Electoral Commission offices to register their grievances over the conduct of the ongoing voter registration for the forthcoming elections in May this year. | | | Sierra Leone House of Parliament was officially dissolved on Wednesday in a ceremony graced by his Excellency the President Dr Alhaji Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. | | | The Speaker of Sierra Leones Parliament, Hon Justice Cowan, has cautioned the leader of the Peace and Liberation Party, Rtd Col Johnny Paul Koroma, to next time regard his honorable duties with high respect, after he was sworn-in yesterday by the Clerk of Parliament, Joseph Carpenter... |
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| | Sierra Leone - Atlapedia Online |
| | John Bangura unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the government and in Apr. 1971 Sierra Leone became a republic with Stevens as President. | | | MODERN HISTORY - WWII TO 1993: In 1951 Sierra Leone was granted internal self-government and on Apr. 27, 1961 Sierra Leone gained complete independence within the Commonwealth from Britain with Milton Margai as the country's first Prime Minister. | | | (4.) The Sierra Leone Peninsula which is a mountainous area with a strip of flat land at the foothill of the mountains. |
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| | Revolutionary United Front: Information From Answers.com |
| | Sierra Leone's economy collapsed, with ordinary citizens trapped between the cruelty of RUF troops and starvation. | | | At first, the RUF was popular with Sierra Leoneans, many of whom resented a Freetown elite seen as corrupt and looked forward to promised free education and health care and equitable sharing of diamond revenues. | | | Sankoh was captured by a mob and handed to the British where he was indicted for multiple war crimes by a UN-backed court. |
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