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Sierra Leone became a republic on 19 April 1971. Coups have occurred in the country in 1992, 1996, and 1997. A Nigerian led intervention force launched an offensive against the military junta that had taken power in 1997. In July 1999 a peace accord was achieved and signed by the parties involved. There were some eruptions of violence at the start, but as the UN peace keeping force grew in numbers things have been stabilized. Free and open elections are scheduled for May 2002. | Sierra Leone became a republic on 19 April 1971. Coups have occurred in the country in 1992, 1996, and 1997. A Nigerian led intervention force launched an offensive against the military junta that had taken power in 1997. In July 1999 a peace accord was achieved and signed by the parties involved. There were some eruptions of violence at the start, but as the UN peace keeping force grew in numbers things have been stabilized. Free and open elections are scheduled for May 2002. | ||
The International Monetary Fund, feeling that sufficient progress has been made has begun to help the country to rebuild. Refugees are returning from exile as quickly as they can be reabsorbed back into the society.< | The International Monetary Fund, feeling that sufficient progress has been made has begun to help the country to rebuild. Refugees are returning from exile as quickly as they can be reabsorbed back into the society. | ||
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==Timeline== | ==Timeline== | ||
1792 - Nearly 1200 persons from Nova Scotia crossed the Atlantic to build the second, and only permanent Colony of Sierra Leone<br> | |||
1808 - British crews delivered thousands of formerly enslaved Africans to Freetown, after liberating them from illegal slave ships<br> | |||
1898 - During the Hut Tax War fighters had the advantage over the vastly more powerful British forces, but the British troops and warriors suffered hundreds of fatalities<br> | |||
1960 - On the conclusion of talks in London, the United Kingdom agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on 27 April 1961<br> | |||
1968 - Unrest in the provinces led to a state of emergency across the country<br> | |||
1991 - 2001 About 50,000 people were killed in Sierra Leone's civil war and hundreds of thousands of people were forced from their homes and many became refugees in Guinea and Liberia<br> | |||
2014 - There were nearly 3000 deaths and 10 thousand cases of Ebola in Sierra Leone<br> | |||
== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
[[Category:Sierra Leone]] | [[Category:Sierra Leone]] | ||