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President Ernest Bai Koroma Sierra Leone

Background Information-
 * Graduate of Fourah Bay College
 * Previous occupations - businessman, insurance broker, and politician

Geography-
 * Western Africa. Between Guinea and Liberia, on the North Atlantic Ocean
 * 8 30 North, 11 30 West
 * Capital - Freetown
 * Independence from UK on April 27, 1961
 * 27,699 sq miles
 * Tropical climate
 * swamps, wooded hill country, upland plateau, and mountains in the east
 * rapid population growth, deforestation, depletion of natural resources and overfishing.

Economy- 
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">recovering from a civil war
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">natural resources - diamonds, titanium, ore, bauxite, iron ore, gold, chromite
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2/3 of popolation is in substance agriculture
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">very high unemployment

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Social Structure-


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Population 6,440,053
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">average life span is 41
 * very poor evern with outside help

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">﻿References-


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">United Nations-Give money to help the country from falling back into war.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">United States - Assistance with peace, human rights, democracy, and the battle of HIV/AIDS.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Liberia and Guinea - working with Sierra Leone to establish an economic union between the states.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. 19 Aug. 2010. Web. 20 Sept. 2010. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sl.html>.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"President Koroma Launches SCP." Africa News Service 10 Aug. 2010. Global Issues In Context. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Sierra Leone: International relations and defence." Economist Intelligence Unit: Country ViewsWire 2 May 2007. Global Issues In Context. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> "Sierra Leone." //Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations//. Ed. Timothy L. Gall and Susan Bevan Gall. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. //Global Issues In Context//. Web. 20 Sept. 2010.