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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 17 November 2012. The result was a sweeping victory for the ruling All People's Congress. Its leader, incumbent...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 24 June 2023 to elect the president and members of Parliament. Incumbent president Julius Maada Bio was...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 7 March 2018 to elect the President, Parliament and local councils. Incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 14 May 2002 to elect a president and parliament. Incumbent President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of the Sierra Leone...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 11 August 2007. Seven candidates competed in the first round of the presidential election; no candidate...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 26 and 27 February 1996 to elect the President and members of Parliament, with a second round of the presidential...
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    1964) is a Sierra Leonean politician who has served as president of Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018. He is a retired brigadier in the Sierra Leone Army...
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  • The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002), or the Sierra Leonean Civil War, was a civil war in Sierra Leone that began on 23 March 1991 when the Revolutionary...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate in May 1957. A total of 39 seats were up for election, whilst another 12 paramount...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 15 May 1973. The result was a victory for the All People's Congress, which won 84 of the 85 elected seats...
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    civilian rule were fulfilled by Bio. Prior to conducting the election, Sierra Leoneans and international stakeholders were involved in a major debate...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 17 March 1967. They were won by the opposition All People's Congress, marking the first time that a ruling...
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  • between Sierra Leone and Britain; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate in November 1951. The 1947 constitution expanded the Legislative Council to 35 members...
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  • the long Sierra Leone civil war which the government fought against the Revolutionary United Front from 1991 to 2002, the 1992 Sierra Leonean coup d'état...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 25 May 1962, just over a year after the country gained independence from the United Kingdom. This was the...
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    General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate for the first time on 28 October 1924. The National Congress of British West Africa...
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    Parliamentary elections were held in Sierra Leone on 6 May 1977. They were the last multi-party elections held in the country until 1996. Elections were called...
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    Siaka Stevens (category Sierra Leonean police officers)
    between Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. Another point of contention was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...
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    over 4,000 people voting no. Background Note: Sierra Leone US Department of State Sierra Leone Election New York Times, 2 October 1985 "Siaka Stevens...
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    Parliamentary elections were held in Sierra Leone on 1 May 1982. They were the first elections since the country had become a one-party state under the...
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    Zainab Bangura (category Sierra Leonean activists)
    bəŋˈɡuːrə/; born 18 December 1959) is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at...
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    Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (category 21st-century Sierra Leonean women politicians)
    7 January 1968) is a Sierra Leonean politician and finance professional, who is serving as the current mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital and largest...
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  • and the SLPP became the ruling party. The SLPP, along with almost all Sierra Leonean political parties, signed the constitution at the London constitutional...
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    the 2007 Sierra Leonean general election. Emmerson's later albums include 2 Fut Arata (2007), Yesterday Betteh Pass Tiday (2010), Rise (2012), Kokobeh...
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    Parliamentary elections were held in Sierra Leone on 29 and 30 May 1986. As the country was a one-party state at the time, the All People's Congress was...
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  • the RUF in exchange for conflict diamonds smuggled out of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leonean government eventually signed a ceasefire with the RUF that...
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    Secretary General of the Fourah Bay College Students Union Wusu Sannoh, mayor of Bo Sallieu Bundu, Sierra Leonean football player Bunturabie Jalloh Sierra Leone's...
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    influence in the political and economic development of the nation. Sierra Leonean women face extreme gender inequality. They experience high levels of...
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    Krio is also the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans living abroad. The Sierra Leone Creoles settled across West Africa in the nineteenth...
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