Sierra Leone Government, History, & Natural Resources

Discuss and reflect on Sierra Leone national issues at this web site recently developed by John Leigh, former Sierra Leone Ambassador to the U.S. and former candidate for President.

www.bintumani.com

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Other Sites about/from Government:

Africa South of the Sahara: Sierra Leone

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/sierra.html. Excellent list of resources, esp. for online news articles and documents of governments and international agencies.

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP)

Carleton University. Provides country rankings, on-line presentations and a mapping component, risk assessments, regional conflict analysis, early warning research, and open-source data, measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages. "Our database currently includes statistical data measures for over hundred performance indicators for 196 countries, spanning fifteen years. These indicators are drawn from a variety of open sources." Statistics for African countries are sometimes not available. Has, in Adobe pdf, the full text of Conflict Risk Assessment Report: West Africa: Mano River Union and Senegambia (01/04/2002) 369K; Democratic Republic of Congo: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 25K; Sierra Leone: A Risk Assessment Brief (01/02/2002) 35K. http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/

Documents about Sierra Leone. Important documents—speeches, government agreements, etc. http://www.sierra-leone.org/documents.html

Global Policy Forum - Sierra Leone

Has full text U.N. resolutions, reports, journal and newspapers articles, covering 1998 to date, and a link to the Sandline Report - UK Select Committee on Foreign Affairs (1999) - "A UK government report on the 'Sandline Affair', which saw the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office implicated in a Sierra Leone arms trafficking scandal." The Forum, in New York City, seeks to make the U.N. more responsive to citizen concerns. http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/slindex.htm

Sierra Leone Encyclopedia: Government of Sierra Leone

Excellent basics and additional information. On the home page, hover on "Government of Sierra Leone." http://www.daco-sl.org/encyclopedia/

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History; Natural Resources

History

Cry Freetown Web Site This Web site is a companion for the award-winning documentary by the same name (see "Cry Freetown" video). The Web site has a brief history of Sierra Leone, an interview with the director of the video, and an online store. The site is based in London. http://www.cryfreetown.org

Sierra Leone Imagine Links to histories and descriptions of the civil war.

http://www.sierra-leone.info/civilwar/links.htm

Tales of Torture

What the civil war was like for civilians. From the "Sierra Leone Imagine" Web site, reprinted here for easier reading, with a link to further tales of torture and civil war. Tales of Torture

University of Pennsylvania Sierra Leone Page and Search Engine

Links to the CIA World Factbook, maps, travel, language information, etc. Created by Julie Sisskind, now maintained by Ali Dinar. UPenn has a search facility. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/
Country_Specific/S_Leone.html

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Natural Resources (Crops, Water)

Sierra Leone Encyclopedia--updated yearly

Excellent information on both basics and details of many aspects of Sierra Leone development. A core project of the Sierra Leone Information System, which is supported by the United Nations Development Program.

http://www.daco-sl.org/encyclopedia/

"Gateway to Land and Water Information" - Sierra Leone. Land, water, and plant-nutrient resources. http://www.fao.org/ag/aGL/
swlwpnr/reports/y_sf/z_sl/sl.htm

"Traditional agro-forestry systems: Prospects for development" A 1980s journal article from a Nigerian agricultural research center about bush-fallow and other crop rotation systems in tropical areas. http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80364e
/80364E06.htm

University of Pennsylvania Sierra Leone Page and Search Engine Links to the CIA World Factbook, maps, travel, language information, etc. Created by Julie Sisskind, now maintained by Ali Dinar. UPenn has a search facility. http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_
Studies/Country_Specific/S_Leone.html

See also on Google, "bush fallow system" and "bush fallow system Sierra Leone."

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The views and opinions expressed in this page are strictly those of the page author.
The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.