Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was a Sierra Leonean politician who served twice as the 3rd President of Sierra Leone,from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007. An economist and attorney by profession,Kabbah spent many years working for the United Nations Development Programme. He retired from the United Nations and returned to Sierra Leone in 1992.
Julius Maada Wonie Bio 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 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).
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.
Fourah Bay College is a public university in the neighbourhood of Mount Aureol in Freetown,Sierra Leone. Founded on 18 February 1827,it is the first western-style university built in Sub-Saharan Africa and,furthermore,the first university-level institution in Africa. It is a constituent college of the University of Sierra Leone (USL) and was formerly affiliated with Durham University (1876–1967).
Edward Wilmot Blyden was an Americo-Liberian educator,writer,diplomat,and politician who was primarily active in West Africa. Born in the Danish West Indies,he joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to Liberia. Blyden became a teacher for five years in the British West African colony of Sierra Leone in the early twentieth century. His major writing were on pan-Africanism,which later became influential throughout West Africa,attracting attention in countries such as the United States as well. His ideas went on to influence the likes of Marcus Garvey,George Padmore and Kwame Nkrumah.
The following list is of events that happened during 2007 in Sierra Leone.
Alhaji Samuel Sidique Sam-Sumana is a Sierra Leonean politician who was the Vice President of Sierra Leone from September 17,2007,to March 17,2015. Sam-Sumana stood as the vice-presidential candidate of the All People's Congress (APC) in the 2007 presidential election,alongside presidential candidate Ernest Bai Koroma. The APC ticket defeated the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) presidential candidate Solomon Berewa and vice presidential candidate Momodou Koroma. Sam-Sumana took office as vice president on September 17,2007.
Haja Afsatu Olayinka Ebishola Savage Kabba is a Sierra Leonean Oku politician and former Sierra Leone minister of Energy and Power. She served as a member of Parliament of Sierra Leone from the Western Area Urban District from 2002 to 2007.
Sia Nyama Koroma is Sierra Leonean biochemist and psychiatric nurse. She served as First Lady of Sierra Leone from 17 September 2007,and up until 4 April 2018. She is the wife of Ernest Bai Koroma,the 4th President of Sierra Leone.
Mabinty Daramy is a Sierra Leonean politician. She was a deputy minister in President Ernest Bai Koroma's cabinet during both his terms and is currently the Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea.
Dr. Christiana Ayoka Mary Thorpe is a former two-term Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission,an independent agency created by the Sierra Leone government to organise and supervise national,regional and local elections. She is the first woman Chief Electoral Commissioner in the country's history. She was also a Deputy Minister of Education in the 1990s. In March 2016,she was appointed a Deputy Minister of Education,Science and Technology,though one source states that Parliamentary approval was still pending.
Edward Wilmot Blyden III was a diplomat,political scientist and educator born in Freetown Sierra Leone Protectorate. He distinguished himself as an educator and contributor to post-colonial discourse on African self-government,and Third World non-alignment. He was the grandson of Edward Wilmot Blyden.
Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh GCOR is a Sierra Leonean lawyer who was the first female Chief Justice of Sierra Leone from 2008 to 2015.
Alhaji Alpha Sahid Bakar Kanu is a Sierra Leonean politician and the current Sierra Leone minister of Presidential and Public Affairs. He is also the official spokesman of the All People's Congress (APC) political party,a position he has held even before the APC came to power. In January 2012,Kanu was chosen by Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma to serve as Minister of Information and Communication in Koroma's new second term cabinet.
Alice Rosalyn Koroma was the mother of Sierra Leone's president,Ernest Bai Koroma,and a longtime primary school teacher in Makeni. She was a longtime member of the Wesleyan Church congregation in Makeni,and in the 1960s she was a member of the Makeni city council from the All People's Congress (APC) party. Koroma,whose political career stems back to the 1960s,"was a strong supporter" and "advocate of women's rights". She was very active in the political scene of Sierra Leone and was a former leader of the All People's Congress (APC) Women's Congress in Bombali District in the later half of the 1960s.
Momodu Maligi is a Sierra Leonean politician and former Minister of Water Resources for Sierra Leone. At thirty two years old,he became the youngest Sierra Leonean cabinet minister in President Ernest Bai Koroma's cabinet.
Sylvanus Fornah Koroma was a noted educationist in Sierra Leone and the father of Sierra Leone's president,Ernest Bai Koroma.
Victor Bockarie Foh is a Sierra Leonean politician who served as Vice President of Sierra Leone from 19 March 2015 to 4 April 2018. Foh replaced Samuel Sam-Sumana as vice president,after Sam-Sumana was sacked by President Ernest Bai Koroma.
Israel–Sierra Leone relations are the official and diplomatic relations between the State of Israel and the west African Republic of Sierra Leone. Both nations have friendly ties,established in 1961 when Sierra Leone gained independence. Israel has no embassy in Freetown,and is represented through its embassy in Senegal. Likewise,Sierra Leone does not maintain a diplomatic representation in Israel,and is instead represented by its consul of honor,Israeli media personality David Ben Basat. In August 2023,Sierra Leone announced its intention to open an embassy in Jerusalem.
