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Sierra Leone SearchesHere a list of sites were you can expect to find specific information about Sierra Leone when you search their database on the word "Sierra Leone": UNIONS is the United Nations International Organizations Network Search. Here you can search within all the UN-system, including sub-organizations. Expect to find too much documents, reports, articles, etc. about Sierra Leone. ECA-search - (UN.org.) In the database of the Economic Commission for Africa you might find some country-specific information about development. They also are quite good on gender issues. FAO-search - (UN-org.) Their database gives you lots of articles and reports about livestock and agriculture in Sierra Leone. Tons of free information! ILO-search - (UN-org.) Their database might find you some reports about working conditions in Sierra Leone, although there is little African country-specific information. Infonation is a UN statistics service. Choose country specific data from their huge and updated database. All countries are represented with data from the fields geography, economy, population and social indicators. You can compare data from up to seven countries. Excellent tool! UNDP-search - (UN-org.) You will find a solid amount of documents and reports about development in Sierra Leone in their database. UNESCO-search - (UN-org.) Their database contains loads of document related to education, science and culture and related items in Sierra Leone. WHO-search - (UN-org.) You'll find quit a few documents and reports about health issues in Sierra Leone and the region doing a search in their database. WTO-search - In the database of the World Trade Organization you'll find quit a few country-specific documents about trade, subsidies, development, etc. in Sierra Leone. Write "Sierra Leone" in the "Document Title" bar. WoYaa! is a search engine in French and English with links to quite a few sites in French-speaking Africa. Not updated since 1998 (?) and many bad connections. Yahoo-search - Yahoo helps you find websites related to Sierra Leone, although you'll have no idea what you'll find clicking their links...
Newspapers & PressHere, you'll find links to Sierra Leonean and non-Sierra Leonean newspapers and news agencies regularly writing about Sierra Leone, international press in general and other facilitators of news about Sierra Leone.
The Press in Sierra LeoneOn the Afrol Sierra Leone News Page, you'll find regularly updated news articles and a list of previous articles. The Concord Times is one of Sierra Leone's most renown newspapers, which has managed to keep a clear profile throughout the war - and its journalists have won and deserved several international prices. Articles are pasted on a bit irregular basis and the site's design is horrible, but the Concord Times remains the best Sierra Leonean news source. Recommended. The Pool Newspaper, based in Freetown, is an online newspaper, updated several times a week. News headlines and backgrounders. Sierra Leone Internet Services is an almost daily updated site with news and polls. The Sierra Leone News Agency (SLENA) operates an updated site with daily news. Articles mostly go beyond headline news quality. One of the better places to keep updated. Sierra Leone Online is a national portal to Sierra Leone. Features daily news and other services.
Press reporting about Sierra LeoneAfrica Confidential is a bisemanal journal on Africa. They let you enter their database on Sierra Leone of past headlines, which has some basic facts and news about Sierra Leone. AllAfrica.com is an commercial network providing news from across the African continent. You can also go directly to their Sierra Leone page, listing the latest news stories. IRIN (Integrated Regional Information Network) is a UN humanitarian information unit, covering news from all Africa. You can also go directly into their Sierra Leone archive, where articles from the last months about Sierra Leone figure. NewAfrica, Sierra Leone offers interesting information about Sierra Leonean infrastructures, agriculture, business, environment, education, etc. One World News Service is an international news service with a special page for Sierra Leone. In English, but not too regularly updated. PANA (PanAfrican News Agency) has an expanding pool of correspondents continent wide and partnerships with 48 national news agencies and the largest news-gathering operation in Africa. No country pages, but daily updated news from all over Africa. Sierra Leone News (on Sierra Leone Web) offers daily news with the focus on the country. Well updated, but mostly headline news. Sierra Leone News is powered by WorldNews.com. This news site brings you daily news about Sierra Leone, provided by the world's leading newspapers and press agencies. It's not really a newspaper itself, more a very efficient search engine, giving you headlines made all over the world. In English. Weather.com has a page about the weather in Sierra Leone.
International pressLe Monde, the leading French newspaper, has an ample international coverage (all in French). You can also go directly to their Africa page. The Africa and Middle East site of the BBC World Services offers updated news, articles and other media services on Africa. The Financial Times is one of the world's leading business newspapers with a global outlook. You can also go directly to their Middle East and Africa page. The Independent is an excellent British newspaper with a wide international coverage. You might want to go directly to their Africa page, where the latest articles about the continent are listed. The International Herald Tribune is a daily newspaper edited in Paris with a focus on news from all over the world. Published with The New York Times & The Washington Post. The New York Times is one of the most important US newspapers, having a relatively good international coverage, including an Africa page. Most international articles, however, are by AP or Reuters. The Washington Post is a prestigious US newspaper with an ample international coverage. You might want to go directly to their Africa page or Sierra Leone page, were the last articles from WP are listed. Times Internet Edition (UK) is the internet edition of the world's oldest daily newspaper. The sister paper, the Sunday Times Internet Edition has its own website. Relatively good international coverage.
News & Discussion GroupsAfrica Online Sierra Leone offers services like e-mail, chat, newsgroups. A lot of news too, and only in English. L'Afrique sur Internet is a website in French about everything what's happening on Internet in francophone Africa. List of links, forums, etc. NewAfrica has chats, besides offering lots of other services. The Sierra Leone Newsgroup was founded in 1995 by Alpha Koroma. This Usenet Newsgroup provides a forum for issues of national interest.
Government OfficesNational Institutions: Embassies and other Representations in
Foreign Countries About Sierra Leonean government, see also Politics and General Information, below.
OtherCities & TownsWeather.com has a page about the weather in Namibia, with special information about some cities, like Freetown. Cry Freetown is the website on Sorious Samura's graphic award-winning documentary of the January 1999 rebel invasion of Freetown.
Companies
CultureAfromix' web page to Sierra Leonean music, groups and artists, with special pages on some Sierra Leonean musicians. French and Spanish versions. The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families and countries.
EconomyThe European Commission: Sierra Leone - Development is a page with some articles about statistics on external trade in Sierra Leone in the last years and some more. English. Mbendi Consultants' country profile on Sierra Leone concentrates on economical issues. Statistics on communications and information technology, etc. Planet Business-Sierra Leone offers interesting data of the country's economic situation for importers, exporters, distributors and traders. Sierra Leone Economic Development and Indicators is an annual NewAfrica country profile on their pages about African economy. They use the IMF as their primary source, which should guarantee for their quality.
EducationThe Albert Academy, Freetown has a website with some general information and some pages I) didn't understand anything of...
Environment/NatureFriends of the Earth (FoEI) is the world's largest federation of environmental groups, uniting close to one million activists worldwide. FoEI's member organizations in 61 countries. Its local office in Sierra Leone has a web page with some basic information. NewAfrica-Environment offers interesting information about the environment in Africa, among other subjects, and sometimes news about the environment in Sierra Leone.
General Information/Read about Sierra LeoneThe U.S.
government has several informative, though subjective, pages about most countries in
the world, including Sierra Leone, being regularly updated. Big
resources are used to produce and maintain these pages. The CIA.
annual Factbook 2000 is probably
the best and most updated collection of data on the web. The Ethnologue Database is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Index organizes languages according to language families. The Sierra Leone Chiefdoms Vulnerabilty Analysis Web site is based on an analysis by the European Union of the conditions in the northern and eastern provinces of the country. Contains the report, mapping sets and an On-line Database of Sierra Leone chiefdoms data. Friends of Sierra Leone is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 by a small group of returned Peace Corps Volunteers, soon joined by their Sierra Leonean friends. Informative site. The Spanish spoken website of the Basque publishing house Ikuska has pages on all African countries with relatively good statistical data and fuller information on ethnic groups. Infoplease.com contains a page about Sierra Leone with basic data of the country: history, geography, etc. NewAfrica Sierra Leone offers interesting information about Sierra Leonean infrastructure, agriculture, business, environment, education, etc. They also have a quite decent map.
The Norwegian Refugee Council has a very ample country profile of Sierra Leone. Includes lots of humanitarian information, especially about internally displaced people ("IDPs") and links to other resources (maps, etc). Very informative!
The Sierra Leone Notebook gives an introduction to Sierra Leone by Paul Vreugdenhil, including the national anthem and other national symbols.
Sulima Information Web is a Sierra Leonean site named after the first ever commercial sea port in modern Sierra Leone. Features some background information on various topics. You can order books about Sierra Leone on amazon.com's web page.
Human RightsAlive in Freetown is something like a documentary about the crimes against civilians committed in Sierra Leone. Interesting, although I got skeptical when I saw their reference to the "childish innocence" of the Sierra Leonean people.... The Committee to Protect Journalists has a small, but interesting rapport about the situation of the press in Sierra Leone in 1997. The most informative site about human rights in Sierra Leone is the annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices Released by the U.S. State Department. Big, elaborated report about the state of human rights in Sierra Leone. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has country pages for most African countries, describing the refugee situation. Page contains annually updated texts and statistics about refugees living in the country and internally displaced. Go directly to their Sierra Leone page here. In the annual World Press Freedom Review looks at the the state of the media in 168 countries, like Sierra Leone, documenting press freedom violations. 1999.
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