• "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" (originally "Diamonds") is a song by American rapper Kanye West from his second studio album, Late Registration (2005). The...
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  • southern Sierra Leone, which were rich in alluvial diamonds. The government's ineffective response to the RUF and the disruption in government diamond production...
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    The economy of Sierra Leone is $4.082 billion by gross domestic product as of 2018. Since the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2002, the economy is...
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    industry of Sierra Leone accounted for 4.5 percent of the country's GDP in 2007 and minerals made up 79 percent of total export revenue with diamonds accounting...
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    Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency...
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    and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (informally British Sierra Leone) was the British colonial administration in Sierra Leone from 1808 to 1961, part of...
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    Revolutionary United Front (category 1991 establishments in Sierra Leone)
    around the strife in Sierra Leone and the traffic in conflict diamonds Walker, Texas Ranger had an episode entitled "Blood Diamonds" based in part on the...
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    IIa diamond, a category which includes less than 1% of all diamonds. List of diamonds Internet Stones: Star of Sierra Leone Third Biggest Diamond Bought...
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  • Late Registration (category Use mdy dates from November 2023)
    American health care. The remix of "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" references the deaths of many civilians in diamond mines, as well as reiterating the tension...
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  • of its income from the sale of diamonds smuggled through Liberia, which became known as blood diamonds. In late 2000, the Sierra Leone government—supported...
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  • The Sierra Leone Diamond is a 709-carat, alluvial diamond found in 2017 by workers hired by Pastor Emmanuel Momoh in river sediment in Koidu village,...
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    The Sierra Leone national football team represents Sierra Leone in association football and is governed by the Sierra Leone Football Association. It has...
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    and the Last Poets. For his production on West's 2005 single "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", Harris won the Best Rap Song honor at the 48th Annual Grammy...
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  • The leone is the currency of Sierra Leone. It is subdivided into 100 cents. As of 1 July 2022, the ISO 4217 code is SLE due to a redenomination of the...
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    Elizabeth II was Queen of Sierra Leone from 1961 to 1971, when Sierra Leone was an independent constitutional monarchy. She was also the monarch of other...
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    Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. The economy of Sierra Leone is that of a least developed country with...
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    Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa with a North Atlantic Ocean coastline to the west. It lies on the African Plate. The country's main geographical...
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    The United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) was a United Nations peacekeeping operation in Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2006. It was created by...
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  • discovery of diamonds, two years ahead of the British rulers. The establishment of the Sierra Leone Selection Trust's monopoly on diamond mining and export...
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  • song by Sabrina Carpenter from Singular: Act I A Diamond is Forever, an advertising slogan of De Beers "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", a 2005 song by Kanye...
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  • polishing or cutting the diamonds." On 28 August 2003, BBC News reported that during the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone children were used as combatants...
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    constitution of Sierra Leone provides for freedom of religion and the Sierra Leone Government generally protects it. The Sierra Leone Government is constitutionally...
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    Sierra Leone is home to about sixteen ethnic groups, each with its own language. In Sierra Leone, membership of an ethnic group often overlaps with a shared...
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    for Sierra Leone, or the "Special Court" (SCSL), also called the Sierra Leone Tribunal, was a judicial body set up by the government of Sierra Leone and...
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    Koidu (redirect from Koidu, Sierra Leone)
    been using the diamonds to buy weapons and ammunition from Guinea, Liberia, and the Sierra Leone army. The government of Sierra Leone retained a 60% ownership...
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    2004 song by Young Buck "Touch It", a 2005 song by Busta Rhymes "Diamonds from Sierra Leone", a 2005 song by Kanye West "Shortie Like Mine", a 2006 song by...
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  • I (Kendrick Lamar song) (category Use mdy dates from February 2021)
    September 23, 2014 as the lead single from Lamar's third studio album To Pimp a Butterfly. The song uses music from "That Lady", written by and originally...
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  • Diamonds Are Forever is the soundtrack by John Barry for the seventh James Bond film of the same name. "Diamonds Are Forever", the title song with lyrics...
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  • Fula people of Sierra Leone (Pular: 𞤊𞤵𞤤𞤩𞤫 𞤅𞤢𞤪𞤤𞤮𞤲) is the fourth major ethnic group in Sierra Leone after the Temne, Mende and Limba ethnic groups...
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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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