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    The Sierra Leone Creole people (Krio: Krio pipul) are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American...
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  • Sierra Leone first became inhabited by indigenous African peoples at least 2,500 years ago. The Limba were the first tribe known to inhabit Sierra Leone...
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    Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It shares its southeastern border with Liberia...
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  • facto national language spoken throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone. Krio is spoken by 96 percent of the country's population, and it unites...
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    "High We Exalt Thee, Realm of the Free" is the national anthem of Sierra Leone. Written by Clifford Nelson Fyle and composed by John Akar in a nationwide...
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    Sierra Leonean nationality law is regulated by the Constitution of Sierra Leone, as amended; the Citizenship Act, and its revisions; and various international...
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    Kissi penny (category Economic history of Sierra Leone)
    or known as guenze, koli, and kilindi, was an iron currency made in Sierra Leone that circulated widely in the immediate vicinity of its production among...
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    Iraq, Lebanon, Argentina, Haiti, Rwanda, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Congo, Zimbabwe, Namibia and the Philippines. In 2001, he received...
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  • Cameroon, Brasseries du Congo in the Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone Brewery Limited in Sierra Leone and Bralima in the Democratic Republic of Congo In Rwanda...
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  • el mio 1974: Los Leones del ring contra la Cosa Nostra 1974: Los Leones del ring 1972: The Incredible Professor Zovek 1939: Una luz en mi camino 1967:...
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    commissioned by the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver the mural which can still be seen at the front of the Bank of Sierra Leone building, in the capital,...
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  • language in Sierra Leone". The Indian Express. 21 February 2017. Retrieved 22 March 2017. "Why Bangla is an official language in Sierra Leone". Dhaka Tribune...
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    programs to Africa and the Middle East, sending military missions to Sierra Leone in 1972, South Yemen in 1973, Equatorial Guinea in 1973, and Somalia...
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    swordtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sao Tome and Principe...
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  • FBN Bank (Senegal) – Dakar – 100% shareholding FBN Bank (Sierra Leone) – Freetown, Sierra Leone – 100% shareholding FBN Bank (South Africa): Johannesburg...
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  • Miguel Jones (category People of Sierra Leone Creole descent)
    descendant from Liberated Africans who had moved to Fernando Poo from Sierra Leone. His maternal side, the Castillo, was of Cuban descent. Jones began his...
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    Guinean horseshoe bat (category Mammals described in 1960)
    Rhinolophidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Guinea, Liberia, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical forests, moist savanna...
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    in West and Central Africa since 2020. Since independence from France in 1960, Gabon has primarily been ruled by the Bongo family starting with President...
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    Mohamed Buya Turay (category Sierra Leone men's international footballers)
    Sierra Leonean professional footballer who plays as a forward for American USL Championship side Birmingham Legion FC. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone...
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    Faso : après les violences du 1er octobre, les Français sur place sont-ils en danger ?". Europe 1 (in French). Retrieved 12 October 2022. "Burkina Faso:...
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  • a four-man coup d'état, or as De Gaulle put it, "un quarteron de généraux en retraite" ("a quartet of generals in retirement"). The coup was to come in...
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    Flower-class corvettes escorted the troop ship Anselm from Britain en route for Freetown, Sierra Leone. When the troop ship was torpedoed north of the Azores, Challenger...
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  • military coup d'état since the country gained independence from France in 1960, and the first since 2010. The coup was condemned by the United States and...
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    Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the...
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    round-winged orange tip (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon...
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    (UNC) and later split away by founding the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) in 1960. After Uganda gained independence from British colonial rule of the United...
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    both diplomatic and military efforts to resolve conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau, and contributed contingents of troops to peacekeeping...
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    Príncipe (1995) Sierra Leone (1996)c Guinea (1996) Burundi (1996)c Niger (1996)c Sierra Leone (August 1996) Zambia (1997) Sierra Leone (1997)c Republic...
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    agreement with Spain in 1843, Britain moved its base to its own colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa. In 1844, on restoration of Spanish rule, it became known...
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  • ISBN 0-905838-79-3. "Nigeria: Heads of State: 1960-1963". archontology.org. Retrieved 22 May 2021. Sierra Leone (1961), Supplement to the Laws with an Index...
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