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General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 25 May 1962, just over a year after the country gained independence from the United Kingdom. This was the...

elected in the 2023 Sierra Leonean general election. The APC currently has 54 of the 135 elected parliamentary seats, and the Sierra Leone People's Party...

General elections were held in Sierra Leone on 17 March 1967. They were won by the opposition All People's Congress, marking the first time that a ruling...

between Sierra Leone and Britain; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...

Coup in 1968. He led Sierra Leone briefly before handing power to Siaka Stevens, who had won the 1967 Sierra Leonean general election and with whom he had...

appointed all leaders of Colonial Sierra Leone until 1953; the 1962 Sierra Leonean general election was the country's first election with universal suffrage. The...

Augustus Strieby Margai PC (7 December 1895 – 28 April 1964) was a Sierra Leonean physician and politician who served as the country's head of government...

(April 14, 1927 – April 30, 1994) commonly known as S.I. Koroma was a Sierra Leonean politician, labor activist, and one of the founding members of the All...

1964, Sierra Leone's decimal currency, the Sierra Leonean leone, was introduced to replace the British West African pound. In 1967, general elections were...

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theguardian.com/news/2000/sep/12/guardianobituaries1 Sierra Leone People's Party biography of Tejan-Sie Profile of Sierra Leonean Independence leaders v t e...

Commonwealth of Nations. The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), led by Sir Milton Margai were victorious in the first general election under universal adult...

the RUF in exchange for conflict diamonds smuggled out of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leonean government eventually signed a ceasefire with the RUF that...

Kamara-Taylor (June 3, 1917 – August 15, 1985), popularly known as C.A., was a Sierra Leonean politician and one of the founding members of the All People's Congress...

influence in the political and economic development of the nation. Sierra Leonean women face extreme gender inequality. They experience high levels of...

between Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. Another point of contention was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held...

Claudius Cole (born 1962) is a Sierra Leonean politician. In 2016 she founded the Unity Party, making her the first Sierra Leonean woman to form a political...

and the SLPP became the ruling party. The SLPP, along with almost all Sierra Leonean political parties, signed the constitution at the London constitutional...

Congress was the only legal party in Sierra Leone following the 1978 Sierra Leonean constitutional referendum, a sham election where 97% of the population voted...

minister of Sierra Leone and the half-brother of Sir Milton Margai, the country's first Prime Minister. He was also the father of Sierra Leonean politician...