Sierra Leone opposition names president candidate
Sierra Leone's main opposition party has named retired Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio as its candidate for presidential elections next year.The Sierra Leone People's Party made the announcement Monday after a three-day conference. Bio will contest incumbent President Ernest Bai Koroma in next year's vote.
Bio ruled the West African country for three months in 1996 after a military junta seized power in a coup.
Sierra Leone became infamous for its 1991-2002 civil war depicted in the film "Blood Diamond." Tens of thousands were killed, and militias hacked off the limbs, noses and lips of their victims.
Sierra Leone's current leader was elected in 2007 in the first presidential vote after the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers.
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Sierra Leone Blood Diamonds - News
Sierra Leone became infamous for its 1991-2002 civil war depicted in the film "Blood Diamond." Tens of thousands were killed, and militias hacked off the limbs, noses and lips of their victims. Sierra Leone's current leader was elected in 2007 in the
Both cases, which saw violent exploitation of alluvial diamond fields, were identified as rebel movements striving to undermine the governments of Angola and Sierra Leone through the control of key mines. Marginalised were the key roles that
may be a model for America's future in Sierra Leone, a country the size of Iowa on the bulge of West Africa. It's a potentially rich country, impoverished by a brutal ten-year civil war that ended in 2002 -- think child soldiers and Blood Diamonds.
"Blood Diamond" is a best war movie for guys because it projects realistically a situation in Sierra Leone and the illegal trade of blood diamonds or diamonds harvested at the cost of life and limb, amidst terror. "Blood Diamond" goes deep into the
has set up the Marc Bolan School of Music and Film in Makeni, Sierra Leone's fifth-largest city. She hopes to enrol 100 students who have been rescued from "blood diamond" mines or left orphaned by the West African country's civil war.
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