| SIERRA LEONEAN GOVERNMENT STATS: |
| Top Stats |
| | All Stats |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Administrative divisions
3 provinces and 1 area*; Eastern, Northern, Southern, Western* |
|
Capital city > Geographic coordinates
|
8 30 N, 13 15 W |
|
|
Constitution
1 October 1991; subsequently amended several times |
|
Corruption
|
2.4 |
|
[130th of 160]
|
Diplomatic representation from the US > Mailing address
use embassy street address |
Executive branch > Cabinet
Ministers of State appointed by the president with the approval of the House of Representatives; the cabinet is responsible to the president |
Executive branch > Chief of state
President Ernest Bai KOROMA (since 17 September 2007); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government |
Flag description
three equal horizontal bands of light green (top), white, and light blue |
|
Government type
|
constitutional democracy |
|
|
|
Independence
|
27 April 1961 (from UK) |
|
|
Judicial branch
Supreme Court; Appeals Court; High Court |
Legal system
based on English law and customary laws indigenous to local tribes; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction |
Legislative branch
unicameral Parliament (124 seats; 112 members elected by popular vote, 12 filled by paramount chiefs elected in separate elections; to serve five-year terms) |
|
Parliamentary seats > Female
|
6% |
|
[104th of 143]
|
Political parties and leaders
All People's Congress or APC [Ernest Bai KOROMA]; Peace and Liberation Party or PLP [Darlington MORRISON]; People's Movement for Democratic Change or PMDC [Charles MARGAI]; Sierra Leone People's Party or SLPP [Solomon BEREWA]; numerous others |
Status
democracy |
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal |
|
Time required to start a business > days
|
26 days
|
|
[114th of 171]
|
|
Trademarks, residents
|
25
|
|
[88th of 98]
|
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
as domestic fighting among disparate ethnic groups, rebel groups, warlords, and youth gangs in Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone gradually abate, the number of refugees in border areas has begun to slowly dwindle; UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) has maintained over 4,000 peacekeepers in Sierra Leone since 1999; Sierra Leone considers excessive Guinea's definition of the flood plain limits to define the left bank boundary of the Makona and Moa rivers and protests Guinea's continued occupation of these lands including the hamlet of Yenga occupied since 1998 |
del.icio.us
Feeds |
Contact