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=Republic of Sierra Leone=

=President: Ernest Bai Koroma=
 * Born in northern Mekeni in 1953, he was an insurance broker before becoming president.
 * Came to power with 54% of the vote in the 2007 elections running against the incumbent president Solomon Berewa.
 * Koroma is known by the public to have a clean record free of corruption unlike the other canidates running for his position.
 * Koroma and his APC (all peoples congress) won a majority in the 2007 elections as well.
 * Promised to end the corruption in his country that had occured for to long believing that the correct use of these funds could greatly help in Sierra Leones developement.
 * Sierra Leone emerged from decades of brutal civil war in 2002 with the help of 17,000 UN peacekeeping troops disarming tens of thousands of militia fighters.
 * In 2010 the UN lifted the last of its sanctions over Sierra Leone confirming that the last of the rebel presence had been disarmed and disimbolished.
 * The liftings of these sanctions also confirmed that the people of Sierra Leone now had full control over the country.

=Works Cited= Mo Ibrahim Foundation BBC-Sierra Leone country profile CIA World Fact Book
 * 1) Ernest Bai Koroma
 * 2) Koroma is the president of Sierra Leone a country located between Guinea to the north and Liberia to the south along the west african coast. It is a country rich in natural resources and unspoilt land. Unfortunately due to its ongoing recovery from the civil war it still has 70% population bellow the poverty line. Sierra Leone has a population of 5.7 million and growing. Ethnic groups include: Temne 35%, Mende 31%, Limba 8%, Kriole 2%, 19% other.
 * 3) Koroma was a insurance broker before the war in Sierra Leone. This he claims is his foundation for his strategies towards rebuilding his country. His (APC) All Peoples Congress took power in 2007 with the majority election.
 * 4) Koroma receives much support from South Africa, The Democratic Reublic of the Congo, and Rwanda in his efforts to rebuild his wartorn country through a policy of equal oppertunities to all ethnicities and regions.
 * 5) Koroma believs that a country that is bound by the rule of law is the only way for it to truly be successful. Koroma believes that the human right on all his country men are a neccesity in rebuilding sierra leone to a successful nation. He incourages the growth of his countries economy through job creation, the incouraging of foreign investment, and the removal of impedements. He believes that human developement can be achieved through the re-installation of public services such as water and power and through the re-kindling of the pride of his nations people.
 * ErnestKoroma.org Official Cite

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