Sierra Leone is a diverse country which offers many crucial resources. Some of Sierra Leone’s natural resources include: diamonds‚ titanium ore‚ bauxite‚ iron ore‚ gold‚ and chromite. Rice‚ coffee‚ cocoa‚ palm kernels‚ palm oil‚ and peanuts are just some of the agriculture products located in Sierra Leone. Its main imports are machinery and transport equipment‚ foodstuffs‚ and fuel. Its exports are mainly gold and diamonds. Sierra Leone being known for its “blood diamonds” or “conflict diamonds”
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Sierra Leone’s bloody civil war‚ for instance‚ could not have continued without profits from diamond sales‚ which funded the murderous Revolutionary United Front (RUF). For this reason‚ in early July 2000‚ the United Nations (U.N.) imposed an 18-month ban on diamonds imported from that west African country. A week later‚ De Beers‚ the world’s largest diamond seller‚ announced a number of changes in its practices‚ and a week after that‚ an international gathering of the diamond industry called for
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Sierra Leone (Above: The Sierra Leone flag) (Howard‚ James L. Flag of Sierra Leone. Digital image. Flagpedia.net. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013) Sierra Leone. A small country‚ smaller than South Carolina in the U.S‚ it’s located along the Western side of Africa between Guinea and Liberia and besides the North Atlantic Ocean. Sierra Leone is ran by a president‚ who is both chief of state and of the government. Whoever is elected president; will serve to a maximum of “5-year terms” () The current
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Nell Streitz Sierra Leone Case Study Between the years 1991 and 2002‚ tens of thousands died and more than two million people were displaced in the Republic of Sierra Leone (BBC News). This paper will be evaluating the conflict of Sierra Leone in the context of general theories of civil conflict. It will define and discuss the actors involved‚ time span‚ deaths‚ causes‚ and other concepts regarding civil war. This paper will discuss how these major concepts relate to the Sierra Leone conflict and
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Heineken in Sierra Leone The local sourcing of Sorghum by the Sierra Leone Brewery Limited (SLBL) Roos Apotheker 1 Content 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Introduction to the business .......................................................................................... 3 Supplier profile ............................................................................................................ 4 Business drivers for starting up Local Sourcing ..............................................
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“Liberia was a major catalyst for the massacres that occurred in Sierra Leone” To what extent do you agree with the statement and discuss their involvement in the progression of events? The neighbouring West African states of Sierra Leone and Liberia suffered violent‚ protracted‚ and intermingled civil wars in the 1990s. These wars received worldwide attention for practices viewed as particularly brutal—the kidnapping and training of child soldiers; the use of girls and women as sexual slaves;
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Sierra Leone or the Republic of Sierra Leone is West African country that borders to the north and east with Guinea‚ to the southeast with Liberia‚ and to the west and southwest with Atlantic Ocean. It is a beautiful country with white sand beaches‚ orange and coconut trees all around‚ and people of good hearts; however Sierra Leone or Sa Lone in its native language‚ Krio‚ has been underdeveloped and was struggling for many years to gain its independence as a British Colony. Even thou‚ now Sierra
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Effect of Imperialism in Sierra Leone In 1787‚ British humanitarian founded the "Province of Freedom" which later became Freetown‚ a British crown colony in 1808 and the principal base for the suppression of the slave trade. Throughout the 19th century‚ the colony steadily grew through various treaties of friendship from the local chiefs. After the British abolished their slave trade the new colony was used as cornerstone from which the abolishment could be enforced (Gascoigne‚ Bamber). By 1855
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international division of a multinational corporation to determine whether or not the company should build a manufacturing plant in Sierra Leone in order to produce consumer goods. My research will be based on a variety of social‚ economic‚ and political factors. The first factors based on my research that will be discussed are the social factors that take place in Sierra Leone. As a result of high population growth and a deadly civil war that ended in the year 2002‚ poverty still remains widespread
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Economic History of Sierra Leone People of African descent were fewer in numbers in England in the days before the American Revolution and generally better treated. Most of the Black people of England at that time had been brought there as personal servant-slaves from the North American colonies or the British Caribbean possessions. A court ruled in 1772 that slavery in England was illegal and immediately there was a substantial number of free Black men in the cities of England. The story of the
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