General elections were held in Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate in May 1957. A total of 39 seats were up for election, whilst another 12 paramount...

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...

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...

August 2010) was a Sierra Leonean politician, medical doctor and university professor. He served as the first Foreign Minister under Sierra Leone's first Prime...

Territorial Assembly election 1957 Sierra Leonean legislative election 1957 Ubangi-Shari parliamentary election 1957 Zanzibari general election 1957 Israeli presidential...

Krio is also the primary language of communication among Sierra Leoneans living abroad. The Sierra Leone Creoles settled across West Africa in the nineteenth...

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...

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

founded the National Council of Sierra Leone, which became the main opposition at the 1951 Sierra Leonean general election. After spending the next six years...

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...

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

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...

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...

Chief Minister by a landslide. On 20 April 1960, Margai led a 24-member Sierra Leonean delegation at constitutional conferences that were held with the Government...

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...

one-time Governor-General and Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Femi Claudius Cole (born 1962), politician of the Unity Party and first Sierra Leonean woman to form...

Constance Cummings-John (1918 – 21 February 2000) was a Sierra Leonean educationist and politician. She was the first woman in Africa to join a municipal...

10 days later) 1962 Peruvian general election (won by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre) 1967 Sierra Leonean general election (Siaka Stevens took the oath...

Legislative Council only consisted of a small minority of high status Sierra Leoneans nominated by the government. The goal of this institutional change...

the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces. He is responsible for the administration and the operational control of the Sierra Leonean military. It is...

September 2006) was a Sierra Leonean paramount chief and politician. In 1957, she became the first elected female Member of Parliament in Sierra Leone. [citation...

first Speaker of the Sierra Leonean House of Parliament was the Honourable Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston who served from 1957 to 1962. Per the Constitution...

Chief Justice and first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal Sir Salako Benka-Coker (1900–1965), first Sierra Leonean Chief Justice of the Supreme...

was promoted to general. In March 1971 elements of the Guinean military were deployed to Freetown in Sierra Leone after the Sierra Leonean President, Siaka...

exploitation of Sierra Leone's diamonds, demanding a Royal Commission of Enquiry into serious riots in the Kono District. In the pre-elections of 1957, SLIM won...

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...

was a Sierra Leonean, British West African workers' leader, journalist, activist and politician. Born into a poor Creole family in British Sierra Leone...

context of widespread protests over the conduct of the 2023 Gabonese general election, and led to the establishment of a presidential republic under a military...

auctioned at Bonhams in Chester for £38,400 to an undisclosed buyer. Sierra Leonean football club Mighty Blackpool F.C., based in the capital city of Freetown...

the Greek parliament. June 28 – The 2023 Sierra Leonean general election is held; Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party is re-elected president...