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The Sierra Leone Football Association is the governing body of football in Sierra Leone. It was founded in 1960, and affiliated to FIFA the same year. It organises and runs the national leagues, including the Sierra Leone National Premier League, Sierra Leonean FA Cup, and the national football teams, including the under-17, under-20, under-23, and the senior national team. The Sierra Leone Football Association is formed of elected executive committee members, led by a president, who is currently Thomas Daddy Brima, who was elected in June 2021.
Abass Chernor Bundu is a Sierra Leonean politician, diplomat, and the current Speaker of the Sierra Leone House of Parliament, in office since April 25, 2018. Bundu was elected speaker by receiving 70 votes in Parliament. The main opposition the All People's Congress, which won the most seats in Parliament, boycotted the election process in protest and did not nominate a candidate for speaker. Bundu is a veteran politician, and a very close ally and personal friend of Sierra Leone's president Julius Maada Bio.
The Western Area Rural District is one of the sixteen districts of Sierra Leone. It is located mostly around the peninsula in the Western Area of Sierra Leone. The Western Area Rural District has a 2015 census population of 442,951. The district capital and largest city is Waterloo. Other major towns in the district include Newton, Benguema, Leicester, Tombo and Regent. Most of the towns and villages in the Western Area Rural District are close to the capital Freetown and are part of the Freetown Metropolitan Area.
Brima Attouga Bangura is a Sierra Leonean international goalkeeper. He is one of the best goalkeepers in Sierra Leone. he plays for Ports Authority F.C. one of the top soccer clubs in Sierra Leone League
Hindowa Batilo Momoh is Sierra Leonean former radical youth activist and former President of the National Union of Sierra Leone Students. Hindowa was born a brought up in Kailahun, Kailahun District, in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Hindowa received his Ph.D. in African Studies from Howard University in 2004. He was a member of the National Electoral Commission in the recent general election held on August 11, and September 17, 2007.
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Clifford Nelson Fyle was a Sierra Leonean academic and author, known for writing the lyrics to the Sierra Leone National Anthem.
John Nicol Sahid Saad is a Sierra Leonean politician, who currently serves as Sierra Leone's Minister of Housing and Infrastructural Development. He is a member of the opposition People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC). He is one of only few members from the opposition parties to be elected as a minister in the current government. Saad was the Chairman of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) in London, United Kingdom for over ten years, but he resigned from the SLPP in 2006 to join the PMDC. He was born in Bo to a Mende mother from Segbwema, Kailahun District and a Sierra Leonean-Lebanese father. He is only the second Sierra Leonean-Lebanese person to be elected to one of the top ministerial positions in the national government of Sierra Leone.
David Omashola Carew is a Sierra Leonean economist and politician. He is Sierra Leone's Minister of Trade and Industry. He had also served as Minister of Finance of Sierra Leone from September 2007 to February 2009.
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Lansana Fadika is a Sierra Leonean international businessman, youth activist and politician. He is the current Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) chair of the Western Area region of Sierra Leone. He won the SLPP chairman for the Western Area at the party's national convention held in Kenema on March 6 and 7, 2009. His older brother Kemoh Fadika is the current Sierra Leone's ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran and a member of the SLPP'S bitter political rival, the All People's Congress (APC). They both belong to the famous Fadika family and members of the Mandigo ethnic group.
Sahr Randolf Fillie-Faboe is a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. He is a former Sierra Leone's Ambassador to Liberia and a former member of parliament of Sierra Leone.
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Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara is a Sierra Leonean politician, businessman and mining engineer who has been Minister of Trade and Industry of Sierra Leone since 2013. He previously worked as director of the Sierra Leone National Diamond Mining Company (NDMC).
Pujehun Central Mosque is the main mosque in Pujehun District in the South of Sierra Leone. The mosque is located in the town of Pujehun. The Chief Imam of the Pujehun Central Mosque is Sheik Alhaji Ahmed Jalloh. The mosque is also the seat of various Islamic cultural events.
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20070104073927/http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20054233.shtml
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071128115429/http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20055225.shtml
- http://www.police.gov.sl/content.php?p=11&pn=IGP
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