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,and the northern half of the nation is surrounded by Guinea. Covering a total area of 71,740 km2 (27,699 sq mi),Sierra Leone has a tropical climate,with diverse environments ranging from savanna to rainforests. The country has a population of 7,092,113 as of the 2015 census. Freetown is the capital and largest city. The country is divided into five administrative regions,which are subdivided into 16 districts.
Sierra Leone maintains formal relations with many Western nations. It also maintains diplomatic relations with the former Soviet Bloc countries as well as with the People's Republic of China.
The president of the Republic of Sierra Leone is the head of state and the head of government of Sierra Leone,as well as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces.
Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji was a Nigerian career diplomat and politician who was the Special Representative of the General Secretary with the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) from November 19,1999 to July 16,2003. Later he was Foreign Minister of Nigeria from July 2003 to June 2006,then Internal Affairs Minister from 21 June 2006 to May 2007.
Julius Maada Wonie Bio is a Sierra Leonean politician,and the current president of Sierra Leone since 4 April 2018. He is a retired brigadier in the Sierra Leone Army and was the military head of state of Sierra Leone from 16 January 1996 to 29 March 1996,in a military junta government known as the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC).
Christopher Elnathan Okoro Cole,CMG OBE was a Sierra Leonean politician. He served as Governor-general and President of Sierra Leone for 1 day in 1971. Cole was appointed officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1965 for "Public services as minister without portfolio" and inducted as a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1973.
Charles Francis Kondo Margai is a Sierra Leonean politician and constitutional lawyer who served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone in 2018.
Edward Mohamed Turay was a Sierra Leonean politician and diplomat. He was leader of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) from 1996 to 2002. He was the Sierra Leonean High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2010 until his death in 2023.
Desmond Edgar Fashole Luke was a former politician and lawyer in Sierra Leone. Luke served as foreign minister (1973–75),Minister of Health (1977–78),and ambassador to the West Germany (1969–73),France (1971–73) and the European Economic Community (1971–73) at various points in his political career. Luke competed in the 1996 presidential election against several other candidates,eventually losing to current President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah after only receiving 1.1% of the vote in the initial round of voting. In March 1998,Luke was appointed to replace Samuel Beccles-Davies as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Luke retired from that position in 2002. He was an alumnus of Cambridge University and Oxford University. Luke was a strong supporter of Kabbah's government-in-exile after the 1997 coup by Johnny Paul Koroma.
Ernest Bai Koroma is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the fourth President of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007 to 4 April 2018.
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol,also known by his pen name Abioseh Nicol,was a Sierra Leone Creole academic,diplomat,physician,writer and poet. He was able to secure degrees in the arts,science and commercial disciplines and he contributed to science,history,and literature. Nicol was the first African to graduate with first class honours from the University of Cambridge and he was also the first African elected as a fellow of a college of Cambridge University. Nicol also contributed to medical science when he was the first to analyse the breakdown of insulin in the human body,a discovery which was a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes.
Haja Zainab Hawa Bangura is a Sierra Leonean politician and social activist who has been serving as the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) since 2018,appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. She served as the second United Nations Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2012 to 2017,in succession to the first holder of the post,Margot Wallström. In 2017 she was succeeded by Pramila Patten.
Peter Alfred Penfold was a British diplomat who was the youngest governor of the British Virgin Islands and was High Commissioner to the Republic of Sierra Leone. His career began in 1963,when he joined the Foreign Service as a clerical officer. Two years into his career,he was posted to the British embassy in Bonn,West Germany,and two years after that to Nigeria. From 1970 to 1972,Penfold served as a "floater" in Latin America,filling in as necessary for staff at British missions in the region. He served in Mexico during the 1970 football world cup,and on St Vincent,where he was responsible for organising an evacuation after a volcanic eruption. After Latin America,Penfold briefly served in Canberra,before returning to London to take a post in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). He earned early promotion to second secretary in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia,where he was responsible for reporting on the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and the Eritrean War of Independence and was still in the country during the revolution,in which the pro-Western emperor was overthrown. After completing his tour in Ethiopia,Penfold served as information officer in Port of Spain and then as first secretary in the West Africa Department of the FCO.
Sierra Leone,officially the Republic of Sierra Leone,is a Constitutional Republic in West Africa. Since it was founded in 1792,the women in Sierra Leone have been a major influence in the political and economic development of the nation.
India–Sierra Leone relations refers to the international relations that exist between India and Sierra Leone. India maintains a High Commission in Freetown. Sierra Leone does not have a resident diplomatic mission in India. The Sierra Leonean embassy in Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates is accredited to India.
John Henry Clavell Smythe MBE (1915–1996) was a Royal Air Force officer during World War II and a figure in Sierra Leone. He was born a Sierra Leone Creole into the British Empire and served as a navigation officer in the Royal Air Force. He was shot down over Nazi Germany and spent two years as a prisoner of war. After liberation and return to Britain,he was a huge role model to those in the beginning of the Windrush Generation. He retrained as a lawyer,returned to his birthplace,and served as Attorney General of Sierra Leone.
Richard Konteh is a Sierra Leonean educator,public servant,and businessman.
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